wake up

It's easy to lose track of priorities.

Deadlines build, assignments accumulate, relationships loom, exams, bills, and on and on until the world spins seemingly out of control. Family falls out of alignment. Friends in crisis. Sometimes it accumulates becoming overwhelming to the a point of restless sleep and belabored breath.

The body craves sleep day and night; the mind races - refusing to go out, say hello, be at peace for even a moment's time.

Ironically while craving sleep, what the mind and body really needs is to wake up. Go out, move on. Because at the end of the day / week / month the turmoil will pass or perhaps change. It's too easy to replace one stress with another.

At the end of the day what's truly important in life's game is uniquely individual and largely unrelated to many stresses. Looking inward and finding peace and satisfaction with a life that's relatively healthy. Better yet, projecting happiness outward and lifting the spirit of those around. Spending time in the remote outdoors and recognizing how intricate and beautiful the surrounding world is. At the end of the day, the things that are most important are those simplest. The stressful complexities - moments of passing time.