PRESENCE

Are you here?

Not: How did you get here?

Not: Who injured you?

Not: What needs fixing?

Not even: Who are you really?

Just—

Can you be present to the life you are actually living?

There is so much available to tell us who we are,
what we need,
what we should change,
and where we should go next.

Some of it may be useful.

But before the next answer,
the next plan,
the next version of yourself—

here.

The life already happening.

Your body in it.
The people you love.
Your work.
Your pleasure.
Your questions.
The memories that made you.

The soft earth beneath your feet
on an ordinary Tuesday.

Remember.

You do not have to make anything of it.

Are you here?

I am.