What Really Matters

Perhaps there is not One Truth we are here to discover.

Perhaps there are many truths we are here to experience.

Consider this: If we are here not for some grander purpose, some greater truth that we stumble along trying to uncover (alone or together), but simply for the experience of being alive and dying....

then this moment is the only moment that matters.

Being present for the experience of this moment is the only thing that matters.

Perhaps it doesn't matter if you are wrist-deep in paint or eating cheesy poofs or up past midnight finishing the financial report or stepping on the Lego.

Perhaps it only matters if you feel the slippery paint and taste the powdery chemical air and smell the late night breeze and accept the pain searing up your leg instead of trying to run from it.

It doesn't matter if you sell that painting for thousands or wake up tomorrow with a stomach ache or get the promotion from the best-report-ever-written-in-the-history-of-report-writing or if your kids end up in the Ivy League school.

It only matters if you are reading this

and 

fully

present

for

this

word.

Namaste.

Comments

[Sherry Smyth]

Amen. It has come to me during my silent, reflective sojourn that purpose is misleading. We seem to feel that we have a great purpose and that we are meant to seek it. I kept asking what my purpose was here in my time in this life and you've zeroed in Lisa. The purpose is to experience what we have each and every day. With that we can change how we think and how we feel. If that leads to a greater purpose then it is intrinsic and not some grail we are striving to discover.

[Sue Kearney (@MagnoliasWest)]

This word. This moment. This pain. This joy. This morning sunshine. This stomach ache. This ease in my body. This smile. These tears...

Thank you so much for this powerful reminder.

Love and light,
Sue

[Nichole]

I love this and completely agree. There are many truths, and I'd like to think each moment gives us that. I allow the truth to change, just as I do. If each moment is different, why can't the truth evolve? The sun may be the same temperature, but relative to where the earth is, and the season we feel it different. Is it wrong to think that experience matters? I don't think so. Thank you.

By the way -I love the way your site looks now. Lovely and inviting.

[Theresa]

Lots of food for thought here...this post definitely struck a chord with me. When I was a young girl, I would cry upon the thought of dying. As I got older, I sort of lost my fear and lived like there was no tomorrow. As I got even older, I started wondering "why am I here and what is my purpose?" Now I try to appreciate and value each day as it comes...enjoying time with those I love and making the most of what I can. :)