Like a Phoenix From The Ashes: Picking Yourself Back Up

Ever felt like a supermodel jumped on your chest and injected your heart with a combination of Red Bull, cocaine, and vodka?

I have been there before, but this time it felt so much more invigorating.

Everyone has peaks and valleys in their lives, there is no such thing as the perfect person, with the white picket fence, and a family that looks transplanted from the Brady Bunch. That fairy tale never has and never will exist.

This isn’t depressing though, this is god damn liberating. If you don’t have to worry about creating the perfect world that you live in, you can focus on everything that is immediately in front of you, thereby turning the volume of your life to 11.

Its almost and existential feeling, when you truly realize that no one else really matters. Sure its, “living in the moment” and sure Eckhart Tolle may achieve wood from seeing this writing live, and in action, but that’s not the point. The point is that when you are completely focused on the two feet in front of you and less concerned about the undesirables that surround you that you feel as if you could have part ownership in world domination.

It’s a rising from the ashes because everyone has their blunders and failures. It’s the people who realize that their life is in ruins and actually do something about it that create the fairy tale endings. After all, what good is rising from the ashes if all you do is catch back on fire?

I heed that anyone who has felt downtrodden, depressed, unsatisfied, resentful, unhappy, unmotivated, and tired to recognize that they are currently knee deep in a bed of suet.

This isn’t the time to look to god, or to family, or to friends, because you probably have already done that (and you know damn well that it won’t work). What needs to be done is the same thing that the human population has been doing since its conception, rise once again.

But unlike the second coming of Christ, this does not take a miracle. Anyone who can recognize the shit position that they are in and make a mental, physical, and emotional change in regards to their daily actions can create a domino effect that will end in a second coming.

I have been shit, you have been shit, everyone get out of it and focus on right now.

Pick yourself up

Gabriel