How do you hold the weight of being alive? And yes, there is a weight.
It’s the result of relationships and forces between what is us, and what is not us.
Just as we feel gravity pull our body toward the center of the Earth, we feel Life pull our psyche toward the center of existence.
The force of gravity, the force of life – they cause weight.
If the Earth were smaller, if Life were weaker, you’d be lighter, you know. You would take long, floaty steps through your story, like an astronaut on the moon.
But do you want a weaker Life? A smaller existence?
Can I offer you comfort in the fact that the heavy tether proves that you belong to something so much greater than yourself? And it belongs to you.
Would you hold the weight differently if you knew it proved that the mass of all existence wants to echo in your being?
Surely you have cried out to existence in exhilaration, in rage, in passion, in frustration, “I. Am. Here.” And you have tripped over the words when Life unexpectedly acknowledged you with its reply, “I. Am. Here.”
When the echoes grow, it blurs the line between what is us, and what is not us, changing the relationships and the forces. You might wonder, if you’re holding the weight of being alive…
…what aliveness is holding you?
