Life is always a mixture of fear and hope, of the choice to stay or change—and somehow knowing each choice is the death of something. Creation is the alchemy of taking what we have available and what we see in our minds and bringing it to reality—that is the very definition of life.  But death lives there too. Life and death have always coexisted, some twisted bond, balanced in the energy of the universe in a way that only it knows the full extent of.  This coexistence of life and death and the fact that something exists means something else does not or can not be.  On this plane, I am not all of the possibilities of who I am at once.  None of us are.  With all of the possible choices we have, we all know that sometimes it’s easiest to stay with what we know.  That means giving up the possibility of something else.  And choosing something else means giving up what we know.  Do we choose ourselves or others?  Do we figure out a way to choose both?  If you believe, all the possibilities, all the worlds exist at once and it’s up to us to choose our experience. 

We hold the power of life in our hands, always.  It’s a gift I think we still haven’t fully grasped the full extent of.  Even before we are born, we are held in our mother’s womb.  Then we are carried until we can walk on our own, and even then, when we fall, we are lifted up.  Then we make different mistakes, perhaps bigger mistakes, and we continue to seek out those who can help us.  Because we own that power, we also have the power of choice.  We learn to navigate our choices on our own, to take responsibility for our lives in our own hands.  Into adulthood and eventually (for those who choose to) we hold our own children and we guide them the same way.  Each choice we make, the lessons that resonate with us, all of those decisions leave other choices behind.  Sometimes the old patterns catch up to us and we have to decide again, do we stay and repeat the same thing or do we do something new?   

On top of all this we know that life will end for all of us.  For some people the idea that we only get one shot in this iteration gets to be overwhelming.  They want everything to be the “right” decision.  We have no way of knowing what the right choice is because even if something awful happens in that moment, we have to consider the possibility that, too, was meant to be.  Couple that overwhelm with the pressures to not let the people closest to us down and this power could be enough to drown us.  I know people who have navigated these challenges well and seem to float effortlessly through their days, never worrying about what they’ve done, sometimes up to and including some pretty terrible things.  They overcame it all.  I also know people who have become neurotic messes, paralyzed by fear by some of the most inane things, feeling like they let the world down by breathing.  I study the brain because if fascinates me, but when the soul mixes in, that’s when the real magic happens.  That is when we become who we are and we choose the path meant for us.  No matter what fears we have, the power of life is in our hands.  Do not take it for granted.