The porch serves as my current spot where I rest on its worn wooden planks while I hold a coffee cup that has lost its original condition, and I start thinking about taking control of your life as my mind wanders about how people lose their ability to steer their lives because they never notice when others take control. The world moves forward with urgent speed while people fail to understand how their surrounding events shape their personal development and their final life destinations and their physical exhaustion at the end of each day.
The porch is a place where you can discover new things. You see who’s hurryin’ and who’s driftin’. You hear the wind before the storm and the quiet after. The process of staying in one place helps you understand that people encounter less force from life than they allow themselves to experience.
The porch lets me observe how people spend their time by reacting to everything that comes their way. People spend their time reacting to their work and their bills and their interactions with others as if they have to follow orders. People continue to declare that life operates in this manner yet life proceeds to follow its own path while recording everything.
I used to think that way myself. People used to think that life exists as an external force which attacks them through weather patterns and vehicle breakdowns. Took me years—and more than a few dumb decisions—to realize I’d been lettin’ the current do all the steerage.
Here’s the truth most folks don’t like to hear: not all problems show up uninvited. Some of ‘em get waved in because we’re tired, distracted, or afraid to ask ourselves honest questions.
Taking control of your life doesn’t start with big speeches or dramatic exits. It starts with awareness. With stoppin’ long enough to notice where you are, how you feel about it, and whether you had any say in how you got there.
People can float through life without making any effort. The process requires no physical exertion. You simply drift along with the water current which guides your movement. You should drift when you have a job you dislike. Your relationship with someone who exhausts you requires you to drift. The practice of drifting keeps all your exhausting and expensive and annoying routines in check.
People need to live with purpose because life requires purposeful action. People need to declare their current location exceeds their original destination while they work to change their situation even though their legs might tremble during this process.
The area creates an atmosphere which makes most people feel uncomfortable. Silence has a way of doin’ that. The process of stopping your running enables you to find answers which will appear no matter what you think about them.
You might realize you don’t hate your life—you just hate that you stopped choosing. Maybe it wasn’t something you lost overnight. Control slipped away piece by piece, every time you said, “I’ll deal with it later.”
People make their biggest mistakes in this particular stage of development. The process of discovery stops when people find their desired transformation. People treat their discoveries as if they were their final achievements.
Let me tell you somethin’: realizations without action are just fancy excuses with better vocabulary. Knowin’ what’s wrong don’t fix it. It just means you’re aware of the mess.
You must identify the areas which need modification before you can proceed to your next stage. And no, “someday” ain’t a how. Neither is “when things calm down.” Life doesn’t calm down—it just changes outfits.
You don’t need a perfect plan. You need a start. One small move in the right direction beats a thousand well-thought-out ideas that never leave your head.
The learning process which comes from my uncoordinated movements teaches me more than when I stay in one place to appear intelligent. Life teaches us through actions because our thoughts alone will never lead to learning.
You learn by doing things while you adjust through your mistakes and you continue to move forward.
You need to select your path because life will choose your direction if you fail to do so. The decision about bills will be made. Fear will decide. Other people’s expectations will decide.
You will probably end up on a porch one day while you wonder how time moved so quickly through your life.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
You can decide that the next chapter gets written on purpose. You need to pick different paths for your life regardless of what scares you and how messy things become and even though you don’t have everything under control. Especially then.
Spend some time alone with yourself. Identify the areas which need transformation. Discover the necessary elements for this process. The direction demands you to take any movement forward. Life respects motion.
Now if you’ll excuse me, the sun’s droppin’ low, and this porch ain’t gonna sit on itself. The choice to drift remains yours but you must accept the path your floating body will follow.
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