"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu
If you walk in enough parks with dogs off-leash, you'll notice a certain kind of beauty.
Dogs don't have a specific direction they're going in. They'll sniff here, then sprint over to say hi to some new friends, walk a bit, maybe lay down, get up again to play fetch, stroll by their owner, check out a bush, zip and zap. If you mapped where the dog was going, it would look like there's no destination at all.
And that's the point.
These dogs have different personalities, but they end up doing what they're made to do; and they don't have to plan to get it done. Dogs love socializing, playing, running, and relaxing. By just going to the park with no leash or distractions, they naturally drift towards them. They drift towards what they were meant to do.
They drift towards real.
Humans work the same way. There are things we're meant to do. It's distractions and expectations that get in the way.
I've noticed that when I avoid distractions (like directionless screen time), the right thing to do naturally appears. That wisdom is already deeply embedded in me. I just need to get out of my own way and allow myself to drift back to real.
Every human has things they were specifically made to do. We have a way of life we thrive in. Our job is to allow that way of life to continue, and in the process, free ourselves from pointless constraints so that real can reveal itself.
When real does peek out, we'll feel the pull and follow it. Like a dog in the park, zig-zagging with no destination, but somehow ending up exactly where we’re meant to be.
- L
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