Stillness 5-19: What do you have to do today? Who do you have to be? How will you show up for others and for yourself? What’s your role?
Imagine being a flower. Imagine being tossed by the breeze on a lonely hill, or admired by a child, or peed on by a puppy. Imagine budding, blooming, seeding, dying, growing, budding, blooming, seeding again and again. Imagine smelling like a flower, shining out your own, true colors, vibrating in tandem with the universe no matter how tiny. Imagine simply being who and what you are.
Today, try to live your day as though you are riding a flower bicycle. Imagine all the fragrances permeating everything in the wake of the blooms, the colors spilling into the road and penetrating through any stressful thoughts. Perhaps someone stops you and asks to buy a bouquet because it gives them happiness. Perhaps a friend sees you pass and waves cheerfully.
We all have our individual tasks and responsibilities—instead of dreading them or trying to get them out of the way, regard each one of them as though it were a colorful, fragrant bloom. Become that task or responsibility itself, instead of thinking it’s separate from you. All that’s asked of a forget-me-not is to be a forget-me-not. All that’s asked of you is to be yourself, in any situation. Imagine that.