What if we saw ourselves as students of life – How would life be if we just saw it as a plethora of opportunities? From opportunity comes learning and with learning, we soon enough realize just how much more there is to learn, to master. What if life was all about the many opportunities to master our own hearts? And with that, there can be no ‘better than,’ or wrong or right, but only what feels true and then the learning of what does not belong with that truth. What if we saw ourselves as always being a student, a student of life, one that can never actually graduate per se, but one that was on a continuous journey of learning? Life presents many situations to learn from and it is how we are with those learnings that is important. Being a student of life and truly seeing ourselves as such, makes it all about learning, and with this, judgment on self or others has no space. Just as a baby who is learning to walk – it stands, it falls, it stands, it falls and it keeps going. ...
I stopped believing in language Stopped feeling the weight of our words Cut ties from the vowels And abandon the consonants I put my pen down Taped my mouth shut And turned the volume down in my ears And then she spoke And the way her mouth moved Made me want to hear the words The way the vowels fell from her lips And the consonants danced across her tongue Made me feel the weight of her speech Made me begin to believe In language again