Until We Happen to Live
For the first time in my life, I’m not afraid of the future. Woah, we’re starting off strong. Big step from Approaching My Quarter Life Crisis , I Didn’t Think I’d Live This Long, and The Reckoning // The Relapse. Kind of feels terrifying to say that, but it’s the truth. I feel like Kevin McAllister in Home Alone running out of his house yelling, “Hey, I’m not afraid anymore! I said, I’m not afraid anymore! Do you hear me? I’M NOT AFRAID ANYMORE!” And of course no one is hearing me, but that isn’t the point. It’s in the way I carry myself, not what I announce. I have come to realize that fear is such a disease. It serves you nothing but anxiety on a silver platter and controls you. Stepping back from it all, I realized control is just as much of an internal nag. It’s all an illusion. Life goes through its ebbs and flows. You can have everything planned… until life happens. Because that is life. We don’t choose what happens, but we choose how we react ...