When something unwelcome happens,
try seeing yourself objectively for a moment.
Then you’ll notice—
you’ve been pressed up close,
like watching a video with your forehead on the screen,
seeing everything through a narrow little lens.
Looking back just today, it’s a murky incident,
But a week from now? You probably won’t feel the same.
A month from now? You might have forgotten it altogether.
And from the scale of a whole life—
you may even think, Oh… that wasn’t such a big deal after all.
Yet every event
does come to me for a reason.
So let me try
To find just three things—
Just three things I gained from this,
And feel grateful for them.
If you do that,
the event is complete—wrapped up with a bow.
Because it was an event meant for this learning.
And now you can move forward,
lightly, freely.
We humans are very good
at being trapped.
We become bound up in all sorts of things
In events, in relationships, in thoughts, in emotions…
Often, we’re clinging to something
Without even realizing it.
On top of that, information rushes in
like a flood—through the eyes,
through the ears,
down into the unconscious.
We learn things that have nothing to do with us,
things we never needed to know,
worrying alongside others about things
we don’t need to worry about.
But this life comes only once.
This precious time—
this time that will never flow backward—
let’s use it for what truly matters.
So let’s digest the heavy feelings
as quickly as we can,
and move on.
And let’s choose to take in
the information that’s
only the good, nourishing kind.
Let’s look at our daily events
from the scale of a whole life.
We might realize
just how easily small things trouble our hearts.
Let’s become a bird,
rise high above,
and take in the whole scene.
Every person, every endeavor might look tiny,
somehow endearing.
Now then,
let’s spend our time
on what truly matters to you.
Let’s use it
for the very best version of your life.
Like birds dancing freely through the vast sky,
let’s release our consciousness infinitely.
Let’s become free from within.
Because we were never meant to live bound—
We are, at our core, vast beings—unconstrained.
