I spent so much time sad over what I thought it should be — I forgot to look at the magnificence of what it is

I’ve realized that I’ve got to release the definitions I’ve. idealized of certain words.

I’ve reallzed that doing this is to unbind myself from the narrow prison of thought,

where words become walls instead of windows — which is what they’re meant to be.

When we loosen our grip on what they *should* mean,

we open ourselves — gift ourselves the fullness of their being —

the vast, uncharted beauty of what they truly are. I think it’s beautiful in every aspect of life to let things show you what they are as opposed to you forming definitions of what you want them to be or think they should be. That’s hard work! It feels better to allow them the opportunity to show you what they are — whatever it may be.

In surrendering the “supposed to be,”

we uncover the wonder of the is, and that to me is what freedom and liberation feels like.