So there is this really wise awesome shaman like Michigonian (as in one who originates from Michigan) girl that moved to my school this year named Micha. And from the first day of school we've been able to have these really loud aggressive conversations about society and sometimes about colors and trees and cats (DeEP stUfF). Yesterday we were supposed to be writing a paper in English using all kinds of crazy sources and numbers and creativity sucking MLA format, so whilst everyone else worked on their drone papers, Micha and I were listening to alternative music and yelling ideas at each other with our awesome teacher (shout out to Swifty Swift).
My favorite part of the conversation was when she told me about a "pep" talk she gave someone one time. It went something like (loose paraphrase), "Whenever you're feeling sad, just remember that here you are a complex roadmap of veins and arteries, with capillaries doing whatever the hell they do, and yet you still have time to have a favorite color. You. Are. Awesome.". (You could say she's the bee's knees or something)
It's so unbelievably true. Right now I'm squatting in my bed thinking and making my fingers move on this tiny iPhone keyboard all the while my liver is filtering, my brain is shooting electricity, I'm breathing, I am replicating cells, electrons are flying around everywhere, my hair is growing.
And I'm alive and I'm not even trying. We. Are. Awesome.
Just take a second to breath and soak up how VAST AND INCREDIBLE this whole thing is... .... . .. ..... You're on a tiny rock hurtling around a flaming ball of gas and you have a favorite color. How is it even possible?
The challenge or me is to no longer accept anything as mundane or ordinary, to wake up every morning and in every second afterword bathe in the complexity of how fantastic and impossible everything is. Ordinary is dead everything is new and more beautiful everyday.
From an old African proverb Yo a Lo which means "you only live once" make it count.
Yours TrUuuuLy
- Lasercat D.D.S.
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