Don't Take Your Life Too Seriously

It's time to listen and commit to your childhood dreams.

Hey, Mecyll here! How are you doing? I hope you’re doing great this week, especially with the Gemini New Moon coming in.

It calls us to listen and commit to our dreams and pay attention to the details because we won’t know what we could miss if we don’t.

And it’s what I realized today after a long walk back and forth from my neighborhood. While it wasn’t a ray of full sunshine, rather a bit drizzly, the grays in the skies made me feel intuitive, pulling me back to my Yin energy. Because the sun meant action (Yang).

That meant pausing, slowing down from everything I do, and moving my focus to what is right in front of me. The Present Me.

Although my brain told me to stay at home, I felt the urgent call from my body to move around, from my heart and soul to experience life and its abundance without expectations and judgment.

As a result, I ended up filming episodes for my YouTube channel and channelled chaotic, but important messages. Truly, it was an impromptu message, no scripts and all.

Afterward, I managed to bring a package to the nearby post office and ship orders from our online shop. All in all, I walked around 3 km before 12 noon. Hahahaha! :)

Heading there, I met neighbors who greeted me with ‘Guten Morgen’ and big smiles on their faces, waving their hands at me. It was a nice walk, indeed. It felt needed, and I quickly learned it was.

Similarly, you may feel the call to pause and slow down because your body is telling you. Instead of listening to its little whispers, you ignore them and pursue life as you’ve planned it while shrugging off its demands.

Because you are an adult, a highly responsible and dependable adult, you think you know everything, including your future plans (even as far as 20 years). So, you take a cocktail of supplements and caffeine to get through the day, without realizing that your body is telling you to stop.

Even when it does, you don’t stop. You feel annoyed and bothered instead. So bothered you’re angry at yourself for feeling that way when other people seemed tireless. Instead of relaxing on the couch, you spend your time blaming yourself for being unable, being sick, and being useless.

That’s why you feel exhausted, burned out, and at your worst, you may feel lifeless. A living dead, a very busy zombie who only knew 9 to 5 to exist on Earth; a human being who seemed to have forgotten how to exist.

Your distorted view of life led you to believe that every morning, you start ticking boxes until the last minute before midnight, achieving more than a handful, even when your body tells you to relax on the couch and stretch your sluggish muscles.

You forget that simply by living each day, by breathing deeply, by having a chance to open your eyes and get out of bed each day, are enough reasons why you don’t take life too seriously.

If you fail, so what? It won’t kill you. Even if you lose your job, you’re still alive. You still have two hands and feet to move forward and backward, whichever you choose. I don’t mean you should be irresponsible and forget your 3D world errands. But you sure do understand what I’m trying to say here, right?

Sure, you have deadlines. You have a lot on the table. You’re too busy to think of the little things. I understand that, as functional adults, we need to have goals to keep moving forward and to get closer to our dreams. But you shouldn’t forget the balance of Yin (Slowing down) and Yang (achieving SMART goals).

Look at nature. Do the trees rush to grow tall, taller than giraffes? Do the butterflies lash out because it takes so much time to get out of their cocoons? Do the rivers rush you to go somewhere when it’s the rivers that control the rush itself?

How about your toenails? Do you meditate every day to make it grow a millimeter each day? No, right? I know my analogy sounds weird and lame, even stupid to think about. But what I’m saying is you slow down and breathe.

Everything you need to learn in life is right in front of you.

Look around. What do you see, hear, feel, sense, taste? Look at your fingers, your toes, your hair, your eyes, your body.

Then, look within. Feel your body as it is. Have you ever asked yourself how you feel right now? At this very moment, what does your body tell you? Does your back hurt? Are you slouching? Feel your chest. Are you worried? Anxious? Exhausted? Burned out? Stiff? Hungry? Thirsty?

What does your body tell you to do? Do you crave swimming in the sea or somewhere nearby where you can be in a body of water? Do you feel like hanging out with friends? Because you’ve been so hardworking lately? Do you feel like eating a medium rare beef steak or salad this coming weekend?

I don’t know what you feel or what worries you right now. But I feel like giving you a quick reminder, like a soft nudge from my soul to yours. Especially this coming Gemini New Moon. Because this energy draws us closer to our soul, to the things we often forget and repress in our daily rush.

And I’m inviting you to join me in this soulful crusade. I hope this Message resonates with you, too. It’s a lesson that I learned myself after this walk. The kind that I would cherish for the rest of my life.

Because back then, I was an overplanner. I overanalyzed things excessively, which delayed years of potential growth and expansion. I once thought I was left behind when all my batchmates were achieving and excelling a lot in their fields.

While I? At home, stuck, hustling, and grinding my way through as a freelance content writer.

All my goals were left as mere goals, like my unpublished manuscripts that were left on the dusty shelves. I knew I was meant to write stories, but I ended up doing something else. Different than what my inner child begged me to do.

Though deep in my heart, I knew that being a fiction author was a calling. My inner child had been whispering to my ears for 29 years, saying, “Hey, look over here. Your heart and soul are in my hands. Please don’t ignore me. Please.”

But because I was a highly responsible adult and was in love with thousands of dollars in my bank account, I ignored it, resulting in—well, I almost took my life for the nth time. I should’ve died years ago.

Why? My ego couldn’t bear the feeling of being stuck, slow, unable. I was always in the Yang, failing to recognize the value of the Yin inside me.

Unconsciously, I was brewing my well-handcrafted poison, which ultimately blinded me to what truly matters and killed my soul.

My inner child’s gift.

Now, three years later, I’m talking to you, telling you a dark chunk of my life. I’m honored and pleased to have shared this part of myself, as I want to connect with you.

Wherever you are in the world, I’m so happy to share these life stories with you. It’s a way for me to let go of the toxic Past Self that I once embraced, allowing the Present and Future Selves to come forward and introduce themselves to me and you.

And I hope that you will soon find your path and carve a special place in life. I know it won’t be easy to say ‘No’ to the things you’re used to your whole life. But don’t give up on yourself. Never ignore your inner child, who holds your heart and soul this time around.

I also wish you could find the avenue and channel for your unique, creative self-expression, your magic touch, in everything you do each day, and learn to appreciate each little moment that comes with it.

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From Trauma to Triumph

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Any questions? Concerns? If you have, let me know in your reply, and I’ll be happy to help you out.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read my personal thoughts and feelings. I truly appreciate it.

That’s all for today. Have a nice weekend. See you in the next one. Tschüß!

With love, peace, and harmony with ‘Self’ and ‘Others’

Mecyll