Sometimes we live life expecting. What? I have no clue. It's as if there's always something to be done. Something to achieve before life can really start. I seem to have that feeling at the moment.What am I waiting for? I don't know. But it's as if there's something holding me back from living freely. I feel as if there's something to be done but really there's not.
But there are other things we can wait for. Nothing to do with our actions and achievements, but for others. It's as if our lives get held back by the thoughts and actions of others, be it friends, family, enemies or celebrities even. We can get obsessed with others lives and restrict ourselves, not allowing ourselves to live fully while there's some problem/issue with others. Why? I'm not sure. Is it due to us being over compassionate? Too caring for others so that it becomes plain obsessive? Or is it other emotional attachments? Good or bad. Maybe we find our lives uninteresting so we end up looking at other people to see how life should be lived. Maybe we find ourselves caring too much about what others think of us.
Whatever it is that keeps us waiting it doesn't seem to be helpful. I'm a bit frustrated with myself knowing that I seem to attach myself to things that "need" to be done or other people's thoughts about me. But really how can our lives be lived fully if we are constantly trying to check things off? What's the point? Instead we should be living without worry and too much thought about others or the future.
Matthew 6:25-34 "25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
God grants us full life. Worry not. Wait not.
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