The older I get the more I look back and realize just how big of a monster life is. We start out fighting the gravity. We have to learn how to roll over, how to sit up, how to crawl, how to walk. Our brains are in constant learning mode, and we figure out what pain is very early on. As a newborn comparative to other species, we are incredibly vulnerable and can’t take care of ourselves at all. Childhood can be crucial to what happens in our future. But as we grow older the big ugly monster of life gets ahold of so many of us and then it swallows us up in its unrecognizable hunger. We get lost in the innards of a beast that we cannot escape.
Once we become older and wiser some of us are able to reflect back and hopefully still have enough youth to draw their sword and escape the beast and get on living a life we choose instead of one chosen for us. Life is a monster that swallows us up and we lose our path of being because we are consumed by what we think is just the way it is. As I look back on the monster and see how much of my life was eaten away by the toxicity of its existence, I am saddened that I wasn’t given the knowledge to attack the beast sooner. Then my life could have been free from the monster and I would have understood that there is more to life than just what I have been told.
I think we can all reflect and look back at how life had or has a hold of us and slowly devours us until there is nothing left. I want to give the gift of life to people. I want to slit the belly of the monster and set people free. Free to live without fear, free to live their passions and their dreams. Free to look at the monster in the face and say you’re not going to eat me. You’re not going to control me, matter of fact you need to go away because I choose my own path. Be gone monster and away with you. My life will be amazing and beautiful, and I don’t need your lies and fears to hold me captive. I will have no regret you big ugly monster because I am alive in the now and you can’t stop me.
As I look back at life, the big ugly monster, I can see how it had me it’s grip and I can see now how I am free. Slay the monster early on people and live the life you were chosen to live. The monster is only a monster if you allow it to be one. You don’t scare me anymore. See ya on the journey.
To See Or Not To See 