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And you awoke. Maybe there was a moment of disorientation, where the real world of your dreams clashed with the mirror world of your reality; or maybe your eyes snapped open as you fell into a perfect understanding of who, where, when and why you were.
It doesn’t really matter how your day started, just that it did. Is it another chance to live a life that you hoped for, or another ride through a nightmare that you can believe you’ve found yourself in?
In truth, sometimes it’s both.
Whatever the circumstances, whatever the opportunities or the pitfalls, you were given today as a blank page. Is it a chance to start anew, or to finish strong? Is this the day where you revel in your triumph, or the day when defeat tries to claim you as it’s victim?
No one really knows where today will go, because the choices before you are potential portals to an infinite number of timelines where the outcome of a billion futures hang on one moment of decision.
Your next second, minute or hour could be the difference that splits the universe asunder.
But what masterpiece will you write with your sentience?
Do you have what it takes to change the world, or are you trying to stay hidden from all that is before you? Is today the epoch of your opus, or merely another step forward into the apex of your abilities?
Will you rise one more time than you fall, choosing to believe in the dreams that haunt you as they drive you forward into that never defined tomorrow, or is today the day that you default on what you owe yourself and quit?
The truth is, it’s all ahead of you.
But you have to reach out and accept it, taking it with all the energy or your heart and pushing forward through all that you have to endure. Because no-one gets a life without suffering or darkness, but the choice is always yours to make.
That’s what being human is really about; making those decisions that define us, and living with the fallout of all that comes with it.
And getting up the next day.
So wherever in the world you find yourself, and in whatever state of joy or suffering, know that the next day of your life is a tremendous gift, an outrageous opportunity, and a blessing of inestimable worth.
There are so many things you could do today, and some of them will change your world for the better. If you are tempted to play small, hide from yourself and avoid making a choice that chooses to ennoble the magnificent reality of all that you are, know that that is a choice also, and one you will eventually, inevitably regret.
Today is before you, in all its wonder.
And I beg you to write your masterpiece today with all the love and kindness you have in your heart. Today you have it within you to lift up the fallen, comfort the cold, soften the hard-hearted, embrace the unloveable and heal the wounded soul. This day, this gift, these choices, your moment.
All of it is waiting for you to write on the blank page of today.
Write well my friend. I believe in you.
— Dr. Alan Barnes
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