Whatever's Good for Your Soul...Do That.

It's like waking up on a Sunday morning with a warm sun glowing through the window

When your head feels as though it rested peacefully on a floating cloud of wafting feathers

There's a glimmer of serenity in the air, a feeling of overall harmony in the surrounding space

You lay there, for just a moment, with a smile on your face

And you just know its going to be a good day

That's what it feels like. 

That's how it feels to finally realize a sense of pure certainty in yourself. Not so much in your abilities or your progress towards a goal. It has nothing to do with career advancements or how much money you were able to save. It's about the soul; the real, down-to-the-gritty truth in yourself. The part of you that doesn't care about rhyme or reason, doesn't guide itself along the boundaries of social norms or care to conform. Its the part of you that builds the basis for every single thing that you do. It's the part of you that builds your immediate reactions to every factor of life. It's what causes those gut-wrenching notions of instinct; your first impression of the happenings around you. 

Your soul is the basis of your being, where every decision starts, where every reaction stems, where your true self lies. Your soul is your raw personality, before you let the brain take over and mix in forward thinking, rationale, and consequential patterns. 

But if you let it, your soul can be suffocated. It will shrink and whither. It will ache, like a thousand broken hearts. It's possible to allow your soul to be overshadowed...belittled. And when that happens, your decision-making process becomes clouded. Where, once, there was a strong pull in one direction or another to get you started...you have no sense of certainty either way. No real connection to any decision that you make in your life. Instead of considering your truest desires, you become an outsider in your own body...blindly following the lead of those around you. You become guided purely by the path of least resistance and no longer by the conditions that make your heart sing.

Living this way is what leads to a meaningless life. What are you working towards, if not towards happiness? What does life truly provide to those who do not smile? What is a day worth if it adds nothing to the strength with which you will enter into tomorrow?

But when you strip away everything else in life...the impact that other people have on you, your hunger for money or acceptance, and the social status that your exude...you can capitalize on what your soul aches for. When you have certainty in yourself, to hear your soul's side of the argument, and really listen...that's when life becomes good. When you're sure of who you are and when you don't feel inclined to hide that in the shadows...that's when you find happiness.

That's where you'll find your warm sunny morning.