It Starts Right Now

I have never been the best about folding my clothes efficiently once they have finished drying. Call it procrastination, call it doubting my folding skills. I have been known to let my clean and dry clothes sit for days until I either wear them again and put them back in the dirty basket or finally give in and fold them and tuck them away into my drawers. Tonight, and the last two times I’ve done laundry, I brought the basket back up to my apartment and immediately began folding clothes. No hesitation and no procrastination. I simply grabbed my headphones, played some Cloud Nothings and began folding. My mind is stuck on the word “surrender”. I get it again earlier this evening before laundry, while it was drying. The concept of letting go and letting the world choose its path of ascension or negation, creation or destruction, or both, or all options I am unaware of, but just surrendering. Let go of those things you hold so close to you and that undermine you and choke you with poisonous breaths. Surrender. Cut away that part of you by simply letting it go, let it go out into the world and do what it may. You can never extinguish or delete those things, but a life can be lived in transcendence of it. A life can be lived beyond it, evolved from it. A life can be lived in spite of it, by letting it go, by not attaching to it, by not letting it define you anymore, by releasing your grip on this fact and experience that is no longer you. Surrender. Live beyond it. There is a life beyond it that must be pursued. You are your life in all directions, don’t become too infatuated with only one of them. Surrender. Let go.