“Every 100 years there are all new people on this planet,” Anne Lamott.  In the perspective of time and courage and what we do with our time, there is no point in holding back.  We are here so briefly and we are given thought, feeling, and inspiration and those things together give us our purpose.  We are in this together during this time for a reason, to help foster growth and creativity and to shift the energy. We need to celebrate who we are and have patience and love for those around us.  Allow everyone to be themselves and shine their light: stop searching for power, and learn to share the light that ignites the power in others.  The other side to this is that every 100 years there are all new people on this planet so there is no reason to not live fully and do exactly what we are meant to do, to be who we are meant to be—time is precious and short.  I woke up and realized that over 8 months have passed in this year already and I literally have no clue how I got here.  I’ve been working every day, I’ve been taking care of my family, and all of a sudden we are entering the last third of the year. That would happen regardless but the question becomes what did we do with that time?

We can’t change time, it moves forward no matter what we do no matter how hard we wish to change it.  But we can make better decisions with our time while we are here.  We can understand that the rules of nature are finite but the rules of man are not.  We are meant to change the rules and, as I’m getting older, I’m starting to wonder what value the rules really have.  I’m not saying that we should operate in moral decency at all times, but the question of what is moral changes.  We used to kill people for perceived disloyalty to the crown, to their teams, to their family, for perceived snubs.  We would cause physical harm to those just trying to survive and we would harm others for interfering with our perceived survival.  We put material over the person and protected systems over people—who says that’s right? We have created arbitrary rules of success and what people should make their lives like and then put systems in place that make it nearly impossible to achieve that so they feel like they have no other choice.  That’s setting people up to fail.

So our purpose while we are here is to make things brighter, easier, and better for those around us and for those to come.  Make no mistake we have made fantastic progress technologically but we are lacking spiritually and understanding what purpose we really have.  We are making some strides in the effort toward equality but even that feels more like a trap in regards to managing feelings and opinion over what reality is.  I talk about honoring feelings but this is just as dangerous as ignoring everyone’s needs because we allow perception to win instead of reality.  We are born with this team in this time and we have a purpose.  We are ever moving closer to that purpose and we are making changes, but we can only get there if we fully release our hold on what we know (and this may seem contradictory to what I just said) and go with what we feel.  I’m not talking about letting feelings run rampant and going on whim, I’m talking about a deep connection with our soul, our purpose, and acting from there.  There is no need to complicate our time here either with fear of how we look or with forcing ourselves and others to fit in a box.  Break the damn box and work on connecting with humanity.  Imagine what the world will look 100 years from now—let our absence create the space for love to create something good, to foster new growth like I talked about yesterday.  We can leave this better than we found it—that is our purpose.