Get Up

There are days, weeks and even years when any of us can feel like our get up and go has got up and gone. The energy we know we had five minutes ago has left the building. We imagine we’re high, dry and feeling like we could blow away on the first breeze to pass us by. That has certainly been the case in my life for close to a year.

For far too many friends and acquaintances in my life who are experiencing something similar it’s primarily about politics, government and the state of their world.

For some of us it’s not that simple.

Whatever it is that is pulling at you, leading you to the impression that somebody or something outside of your control is radically altering your life, stick with that thought. Follow wherever you assume it’s leading you. Investigate it down every rabbit hole and interstellar chasm you perceive with both your physical senses and your soul. Never stop. Never give up. Search high, low and in-between to do whatever it takes to pull your old self back together again. The ultimate goal is to pull ourselves together and then some.

Pull yourself together and move forward with your life. The you that is coming together is new, distinctive and fantastically unique. Your new self is different from anyone ever before seen by yourself or anyone who has ever existed.

Long before I ever heard of the banjo playing bluegrass bard Pete Seeger sing about it, I heard folks telling each other they felt like their get up and go got up and went. Don’t worry about it, another person would…