let it be

i think we're scared to death to be free.
We're scared to death to feel that loss of control.
We might be living in plush lined coffins but they are comfortable and familiar and we have made our spot there.
We fit.
There is something terrifying about letting go or being cut free.
It is walking out into a beautiful day yet nothing you see looks familiar.
It is finding your way again in a new city, amongst new friends, and trying to discover where you find your place in it all.
And once we find our spot we tend to never attempt to fly again.
Or when we do, it shakes everything.
And we feel we have to begin all over.

You may strip everything from your life and jump with nothing to hold onto;
but you still carry within you every moment of the life you've lived.
It's become a part of you.
It is you.
We are constantly evolving, constantly changing, constantly becoming, every day.
You will never be the same tomorrow as the person you woke up as today.
We are continuously changing yet we have this facade of control.
And therefore we are afraid to let it go.
But truly, we never really are in control.
We never were.
So we surround ourselves with the things that we know that make us feel safe inside; all the while the world is really shifting beneath our feet.

So today:
Find the strength to throw the walls and comforts of what you have known to the side and watch them fall wherever the wind blows.
Find it within yourself to face your biggest fear and learn that it won't kill you.
Do the one thing that you've always wanted to, but you know you never will.
Free fall for a while as the pieces of familiarity pass you through the sky.
And realize that this has been where you were all along;
yet you were so insulated by all that you knew, you couldn't feel the wind beneath you.