Prose from the Bucket List – Time for Take Off

It will be take-off time soon and I mean this in so many ways.
We could be on a flight to anywhere, anywhere at all, and just before the plane lifts, we can feel that rush of inertia. We can feel the speed picking up before the plane hits the sky.
We can feel the pressure of this as our bodies slide back into the seat as the nose begins to lift. Just as we start to climb high above the clouds, we are gone and just like that, we are out of the atmosphere.

We are soaring now, defying nature and the birds who owned the sky before us.
We are up high in the air and as we hit altitude, the engines seem to let out a sigh of relief, as if to say “Ah, we made it!”

There is no destination or any certain place of interest, per se, nor is this about anything of the sort. All there is now is the need to be airborne and to be gone, or to be someplace else where the air is sweet, the lights are bright, the music is right, the sun is kind and the palm trees are flowing beside a sea of turquoise water. And ah, the winds from offshore can greet us like a friend. The sun can beat down to tan our skin and the waves roll beneath us as we swim in the shallows, alive and young, forever and ever.

I am of no loss today. I am fine and feeling better.
I am moving and soaring and dreaming about going forward towards the ideas of bliss.
And bliss is fine for me . . .

It is nothing to sit and stir and wonder about the upcoming arguments. It’s all the same to me.
It is nothing to consider the predictions or the projections of disappointment, and it is not hard to figure on the ongoing problems of our current life.
But don’t worry.
Rest assured that today’s problems can be tomorrow’s problems as well.
We can certainly stay in our own thoughts and stick with our assumptions that make simple things complicated.
Like the truth for example – there is only one truth.
There is no gray area here.
No, anything else is opinion and opinions do not constitute truth even if our opinions are true to us.
Or we can go another way.
We can learn to find a means to an end.
We can learn to navigate differently.

We can settle the nasty disputes by realizing that, again, there is only one truth. Then – there’s this thing we call acceptance.
I accept my truth. I accept the terms.
I am not here to negotiate a better deal.
No – I’m only here to work to find my daily bread.

We can stop the madness and stop the threat of impending dooms.
We can stop with our crazy assumptions.
We can stop trying to relitigate the past.
We can assert ourselves and avert our attention to the main stage ahead of us which is something that I like to call – the here and now.
We can stop the consideration of our projected difficulties and for now – we can live in the moment and enjoy this very second for as long as this second allows.
We can allow today to be sufficient for itself.
We can celebrate and make love to the moment –

I don’t know where tomorrow will take me.
And guess what . . . neither do you.
But to hell with it – I came here to take a chance.
I came here to do three things – live, sing and dance.

And guess what?
I’ve only just begun.
But for now – and I mean just for now, we can think about the extraordinary features of fantasy or the sentiments that touch the heart and link us together. We can begin our journey by gathering fantastic memories that help save us from our daily craziness and next, we can let this recreate our danity, one second at a time.

Let’s be honest –
Anyone can be miserable.
I can easily slip into hate.
I can give in to problematic thinking.
I can easily find something to be pissed about – because hey, it’s out there.
Or, I can be angry. I could hold on to my resentments until my grip turns blue and my knuckles go white.
It’s easy to do this.
No, really. It’s easy to sit in the sameness of a life unresolved.
It doesn’t take much to lose yourself to this.
Or I can go another way.
I can try.
I can revive myself. I can rediscover my hopes and dreams. I can get back to the terms of simply happiness and – if I so choose, I can take myself in a new destination.
I can change my mind. I can change the music.
I can make a plan to create a new item which is what I’ve come here to do.
I am here to place a new item on my list so that I can accomplish them and cultivate my dreams by farming the seed of good hope and personal evolution.

Farming –
I say this for a reason.
A farmer plants seeds. But it’s not like the farmer sits back and waits for the seeds to pull a trick.
Not at all.
No trick comes without effort and no seed grows without being nurtured.
That’s what I’ve come here to do.
I have made this trip to nurture something more valuable than the sun – at least to me.
This is more cosmic and mysterious than the moon and more beautiful than the sway of the ocean.
There is a simple process – if we do nothing, nothing happens.
I’ve done that for too long.
Then again, haven’t we all?

Now, as I tell you this, I am not sure if you remember but I once told you something that I discovered for myself – the depth of my commitment is equal to the span and the wealth of my accomplishments which means one and one thing only.
WE HAVE TO PUT THE WORK IN –

I am far from perfect. I don’t have a green thumb – but I know what it means to plant a seed and need the seed to grow.
I have a list of complaints and a long list of resentments.
I get that.
I am, above all things, another human in this world.
However, I have the drive. I have the desire.
I might not always have the know-how and I might not always have the right plan. I might not always say the right thing. And even more, I might have the right plan or the right intention but a times, yes, I have missed my target with the wrong execution.
But I do have the depth of my commitment and that’s what I hold onto to push me and keep me going.

Here is a few questions –
What is your purpose?
What do you want your life to look like?
Whatever the answer is to the questions above, the more important question becomes what are you willing to do to make them so?

My answer: Anything I have to do.

I know the loneliness of dark holes and angry positions.
I know the ugliness of sad places.
I know about the lack of faith and inspiration.

I know that to live, life has to happen.
And today, regardless of my challenges – I am looking to make that plane and take off into the sunset (or the sunrise) and next, I will be be one step closer to my dream.

This is long-term, of course. But by doing this and making a bucket list and defining the items that need to be accomplished, I can point myself at the sky and go . . .

There is no need to sit and bitch or complain.
Trust me – this does not help.
Today is the day to establish commitment because the depth of our commitment is what brings us to the level of our accomplishment –

And I swear – all of this is worth it.
Even the hardships and the gripes and the grievances are worth it too because in the end, no matter what happened – I never gave in and I am still here – working.

And if you are with me. . . .
then you’re with me.
And that means you didn’t quit either

thankfully –