LOOKING AT THE OTHER SIDE

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path. That will make all the difference." -Steve Jobs

I'm not sure what struggles you might be walking through or what season of life you might be in, but I think that sometimes we can all do a better job of being more grateful in our lives. There is so much to appreciate and be thankful for. I know for me, sometimes I get so caught up in certain moments of my life, I lose sight of the big picture.

I don't know what the big picture looks like for you and the people you love.

I do know though, is that if you're reading this, you're alive. And you're probably in pretty good health overall. And you probably have more things to experience. More moments to enjoy. More love left in you to give. More things to laugh at.

More things to cry about. New risks to take. Old fears to get over.

You have more life to live.

More life to enjoy.

Sometimes, I think it's easy to focus on the things we feel are still "missing" in our lives and lose sight of all the things we already have that make our lives full.

Hopefully, we can all carve out a little time in our days to stop and remind ourselves that we are lucky just to be alive. Just to be here. Just to be healthy. Just to be able to think about new goals and visions and dreams and relationships and ideas.

Hopefully, we can appreciate the fact that we are all here together. We're all in this together. Spinning around on this rock. Trying to make sense of this thing we call life.

Trying to learn. Trying to love.

Trying to figure out what it means to be alive.
And hopefully, while we try to figure out the deep, mystical questions that often fill our heads like "what's the purpose of all of this", we can also step in to our hearts and be reminded that regardless of whether there is a purpose or a point or a particular motive for being alive.. we are alive.

We are here.

We are breathing. We are human beings. And we are all alive right now, in the same exact moment in time and space. Maybe that's more special than we think.

Maybe that's something we can hold on to. Maybe that's important.

Maybe that matters.

Maybe we can all be a little more grateful. A little more appreciative.

Maybe the more we walk through life looking for our destination, the more we are able to realize that what really matters most is the journey.