Is Instant Gratification Killing You Slowly?
If you’ve ever come from a place of wanting more — now.
Of not feeling gratitude for what is.
For believing something is lacking in your life, in you…
Well, these words are specifically designed with you in mind.
Dive in now and enjoy the ride.
Is Instant Gratification Killing You Slowly?
I used to be on this fast boat to instant gratification
And I watched the world pass me by.
Not even realizing I wasn’t living in it.
Only observing it
As I pressed the pedal down to get to my IG destination.
IG, ha.
Instagram
Instant gratification.
Amusing, no?
Pun not intended but so insanely true.
When your guide,
the Universe,
Life
says “we’re not there yet”
It’s not to annoy you
Frustrate you
Force you to wait.
It’s to support you.
Honor you.
Prepare you.
What? You say…
It takes a bit of a yoga twist,
And inhalation or ten,
To sink into the realization.
Or at least it did for me.
Consider the cost
The energy pouring out
To be
Foot tapping,
arms folded over chest
Lips pouting
Eyes narrowed
Waiting.
The Universal...
“We’re not there yet.”
Serves you
Builds you
Opens you to
100% possible
100% of the time.
It’s an opening
So you can discover flow...
Learn to allow...
Slow down...
And pause on the mad dash to No-Where Land.
You’ve been there before
That almost reached the Promise-Land...No-Where-Land.
That place just out of reach
Mythical in that it will give you what you need
If you can just get there.
On that fast boat
Train
Plane
Course
Method
System
Step-by-step
Blueprint
Damn it already!
It’s that external searching that is a lie.
It’s that fast boat.
That bill of goodies sold
Instant gratification
Compare yourself.
Contract yourself.
Conform yourself.
Expand and try again.
That is a lie lie lie.
We’re not there yet
is the brake
One so desperately needs to apply.
For that bullet train is screaming on its rails.
Can you not hear it?
Feel it?
That shutter.
That shake.
That mad quake.
This is a gift.
Four simple words.
We’re not there yet.
And when you finally hear them
When you finally click to the message within...
Pause and absorb the meaning…
The chains that hold you shackled
The bars that cage you
Will
Melt
Away.
Like a kaleidoscope of fall leaves
Off the tallest branches…
Drifting, falling...
Gracefully...
Beautifully...
Gently.
No force.
No tug-o-war.
‘Cause where you are journeying
Is so incredibly unique.
Divine.
And dare I use the word again...
Delicious.
Where you are traveling,
my friend,
is within.
And your guide,
oh-so-knows the way.
Supporting arms,
They have your back.
There is no falling behind.
There is no lost.
There is no hurry up
and give me the key.
On this road of life…
The secret
The way for it all to connect into place
Like a massive game of Life Tetris...
Reduce your speed.
Dock your fast boat.
Jump off that same train--
And just breathe.
Allow the chains to fall away.
Allow the stories to unravel
like a delightful ball of golden thread.
You are connected.
You are not alone.
And your true journey
Is one that promises to take you...
Home.
Home
To
The
Joy
Of
You.
A most fabulous place
Available to those
When they release
The need to control
The now
The outcome
The knowing
And realize it’s fine
To not be there yet.
And instead,
Deep breath
In and Out.
Be here,
Present.
Now.
Did you catch it?
The answer as old as time?
The place where JOY lives and breathes.
No? It’s okay.
Natural, even.
To miss the most basic.
Obvious.The true gift.
‘Twil come to pass.
Give it a go…
Life.
Just be.
And allow yourself to simply--
Let go.
Photo Credit: Callie Morgan @calliestorystreet
