Cheers To Breaking Free From Cages and Truly Living 🍸

We hurry and wander like experienced little mice, in the world we call our own, but really, it's just a glass cage for rodents. Is that what we are? We won’t admit it, because out of all the qualities we've inherited from a "better society," only a simple shame or fear remains… They’re really one and the same. Like brother and sister. We give names to everything. Table, house, chair, awe, sadness... We’ve learned so many words to describe the human mind’s many states, but do we actually feel part of these states?

Life isn’t something outside of us. Seems like an obvious conclusion, right? Almost too obvious... Even though we’re undoubtedly aware of it, we often get the feeling - and make endless attempts to convince ourselves - that it’s not quite like that. Admit it, haven’t you thought that your life has a life of its own? That you’re not really in control, and that you’re either drifting along with the current or constantly swimming against it?

Let’s create our own emotions. Good ones. Joyful. Let’s not be afraid that life will find us hidden in our little tank, clumsily built as it may be. Life won’t raise a finger to rebuke us for our timidity and weakness. Simply because it’s not separate. It’s not outside of us. We are part of it.

We run, but there’s no one to run from. We hide, but there’s nothing to hide from. As we glance around anxiously, we’re not making up a tiny world, like a small box within the larger one of our life, but instead, we’re building life itself. We’re shaping its walls and painting its ceiling. With each little joy, we’re changing it, making it more alive, more ours.

We’re shaping it the way we want. Because one day we’ll look back down the gray path to see what we left behind, and if every day we had our little "escapes," if we brought ourselves joy, smiled at the things that made us smile, we’ll be able to say with certainty - I lived!

Cheers - to a better, more meaningful life! ☀️🍹