Dolce Far Niente

"I'm so tired of saying no, and waking up in the morning and recalling every calorie i ate the day before, so i know how much self loathing to take into the shower with me" - Liz Gilbert, Eat Pray Love.

That movie spoke to me in ways you wouldn't believe. I know everyone has their opinions about everything including this and a lot of them weren't good but I love the lessons it breathes in every second.

Dolce Far Niente, the sweetness of doing nothing. Such a concept. Are you working so hard that when you finally have time off you don't have the energy to enjoy it? I used to wonder where my appetite for life went. I used to love writing, I wanted to be a teacher, I loved to dance, I loved to sing. I had fun. Up until very recently I'd lost that.

I let my priorities swallow me. Have you done that? What do you marvel at? Where is your appetite? What did you have for lunch today?

"If you could clear out all that space in your mind.... you'd have a doorway, and you know what the universe would do with that doorway? Rush in, God Rush in. Fill you with more love than you've ever dreamed of."-- Eat Pray Love.

We all take so much of the world up into our heads, and let it rattle around, when it doesn't need to. The past is the past, let it go. If you miss something, fine then miss it, as they say in the movie, send it some light and love every time it comes to your mind and drop it.

The mind can only take so much, after awhile the world around us will seem to push us down into the ground, to the point where we can't breathe. Burning yourself out is no way to live. To quote Luca Spaghetti "American's, you work to hard, you get burned out, then you come home and spend the whole weekend in your pajamas in front of the TV. But you don't know pleasure."

So,my thoughts are, strip away the access. Remove the things in your life that aren't worth the worries. De-clutter it all. Change something, one thing or more and make sure you are truly living.

Find your passion and revive it. Marvel at something. I may not know much of the world, but i know that you at least have to live in it, and I mean really live , to be happy.

See the beauty, see the positive, surrender to the power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx3zU6CVpz4&feature=BFa&list=PL1DB04AFEB964C92C&lf=autoplay