{"id":30920,"date":"2020-07-08T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=30920"},"modified":"2020-12-30T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T11:01:44","slug":"its-all-happening-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2020\/07\/08\/its-all-happening-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s all happening for you."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Would you feel sad if you realized life is nothing but experience?<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Through my window I watch a swallow feeding in the air.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The sky is overcast.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the corner of my eyes, the male cat that shares this apartment with me gets out of its favorite cardboard box, walks lazily to the couch, and settles down in a new position.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There\u2019s a large cappuccino on the desk.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rain has darkened the streets.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I will feel good today, and I might feel confused.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I will have beautiful conversations (already had one) and I might feel lonely, looking for a quick fix to deal with the sting.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And I might feel whole.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This morning I traveled to a time when I was thirteen and owned an eraser that smelled like non-existing fruit.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I licked it then, and I licked it today.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It tasted like eraser, both times.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Life is a random phenomenon, a happening broken into conceptual pieces, built into a sensical string, but only afterwards.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Life is a happening.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Life is happening.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I want to go fly fishing in Montana.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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YouTube helps me out.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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There I go, from moment to moment to moment.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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From experience to experience.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What if that is all it is?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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No direction, no bigger picture, no universal meaning.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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And every opportunity in the world to make it into something.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To make it real, and precious, and exciting, and heroic.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You can.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You have to.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Life is there for you.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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—<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(Photo by @togna_bologna, for Unsplash)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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