This is Your Wake Up Call!

I like to pinch my self every once and awhile and make sure I’m awake.

Of course I’m awake… but am I awake? Am I aware? Am I in my ant farm like state of awake? Or am I consciously awake?

Wake up!

There I am… now I am awake. I’m here to pinch you too so pay attention because at any moment we are likely to fall back asleep. Walking zombies, walking around a beautiful planet thinking everyone is the enemy.

We are not here to go to work, pay the bills, stand in line at Starbucks and bitch about how the girl behind the counter screwed up our double maka-crapa-full of bullshit latte.

Honestly, we are not… and don’t be pissed at her for screwing it up, she’s just sleeping too.

Wake up!

Turn around, you see the fool standing behind you sleep walking, wake him up too. Say hello, and mean it, smile and be genuine. Ask his name and listen long enough so that you actually hear the name he says.

You know what I’m saying!

We do it all the time. We shake hands and exchange names and for the life of us we have no idea what their name is. The moment it leaves their lips we forget because we are so stuck in our own minds. We are too worried about what we have to do, where we have to be and who we have to meet, that we are not even present with the life that is staring right into our eyes at this moment.

There is no future. There is only now and we are wasting it. Wishing we were somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else.

Wake up!

Can you understand the impact that the two of you are crossing paths?

The millions of people who walk this earth and your standing next to some random person? I think not. Yet, we have lost awe in this life.

This is an amazing planet we live on!

There are so many amazing things that happen here… amazing things to experience and see! So many creatures co-existing and sharing space. I feel honored to be apart of it all.

Wake up!

All life enters this world through creation.

There is no living thing that lives and breathes that was not created from the nothingness that we can not see.

There is a pocket in time in which “beings” enter this plane of consciousness. They take a sneak peek as they enter through the window of their mother’s womb and decide if this is where they shall stay. A belly button window view of the world they are about to enter.

Millions of souls making that journey through space and time to join us here.

The very odds of their existence. Each animal. Every plant. All the wonders of this world. Every single organism. Here, by it’s own willingness to survive.

A spider web that is weaved between each of our paths that cross. May we find the reason and the lesson in them all. Appreciating each and every soul for their contribution to our lives.

Wake up!

This collision of lives!

Impacting. Always impacting each other. For everything stays in a constant direction unless something collides into it sending it onto it’s new course.

Constantly being pushed to move. Constantly pushing others to move.

Spinning, spinning, twisting turning this beautiful chaotic mess that sings like the notes in a symphony.

There is not one single act of terror so great, that did not have peace follow in it’s place.

But we must wake up and remember to be in awe… to look at the life around us. The beauty. The mystery. Reach out to those who cross our paths, not to trip them but to help them. To lift them up, to waken them and remind them that we are here…

Disappointment. Sadness. Fear. Anger. Resentment. Lack. Hate. Those are all illusions that keep us asleep. They spoil our thoughts and distract us from this life. Don’t let them.

Pinch yourself and wake up, then pinch those around you. There are far too many of us sleeping, then once we’re awake, we’re drifting quickly back to sleep…

The world needs us to wake up… to stay up… so that we can do what we truly came here to do.

Live and thrive, not exist and survive.