Stop!

I want you to stop and think about it.

What is it? you ask.

Well, if you can't answer that, then you really need to stop. Put everything on hold and just think about it until you realize what it is. Or, better, until you realize you can never fully know.

And by that I mean this.

We seldom, if ever, stop. Many people never stop. I don't stop nearly often enough, but sometimes I have to, or I cannot go on. I stop and I notice how strange it all is, how unlikely. I look around the room and I see Human Beings. And for once I actually notice, okay. This is really, really  weird. I listen to clocks ticking and think, there is something called time. How bizarre. I see color, I see light, I feel my heart beating and it comes over me: you know, none of this is necessary. None of this would have had to be. Which leads me to an epiphany of sorts. Read on.

I realize in those moments that none of this would have had to be, and yet it is. As far as I can tell, anyway. It is. That's the weirdest part of all. It's in that moment of realization that I personally realize something else still. I'm sure there are many other possible responses to such an epiphany but for me the response is a kind of a buoyancy and lightness. A feeling like I am being lifted up to some higher elevation where I can see what we call reality in its totality, as if from a great distance.

When I am up there on the heights I know jointly that nothing matters and everything matters. What am I striving for? I ask myself. For from here I can see it is already done. Worry is nothing. Awe is everything. Stop worrying and enjoy the wonder of today.