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Why Do We celebrate A New Year? When Everyday Should Be a Celebration!

January 3, 2016 by Jivan Wild Leave a Comment

Why Do We celebrate A New Year? When Everyday Should Be a Celebration!

A New Year, why do we celebrate it?

I often see things in a different perspective and it is something we need to do. We need to step back and reanalyze everything. Question everything.

I look at all these “holidays” that we are all accustomed to accept. The normal tradition that we live through. We are told when we must celebrate things. We live in this regurgitated cycle of the mundane. Always living in a scheduled time and time should not be scheduled, for it should be random, as life should be a random voyage through time.

“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
― Arnold Bennett

I look at New Years and ask myself Why do we celebrate a new year, but not a new month, why don’t we celebrate TODAY. Why don’t we celebrate LIFE.

Why do we wait a full year to celebrate the coming and going of a new year when every day could be our new year.

“Each day brings new life, new strength, new dreams and new hope. May you find courage, confidence and hope to reach out for your dreams.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

We wait for the start of a new year to feed ourselves empty promises to ourselves. But why wait for that new year to start, when today is a NEW YEAR. The moment you wake up is the start of your new year. What we do with that day is what matters.

“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
― Douglas Pagels

Everyday could be a different song, everyday could be something special. Life comes and goes and little do we realize that a new year might not come, for tomorrow is never a certainty. For every day we are born again.

“Today is a new day. Don’t let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli

Which is why I choose to celebrate life everyday. Choose to not procrastinate for a new year to start in order to change the things in my life, when I can make that change today. Everyday is that new day, that new year to strive to better ourselves. To become better then what we once was yesterday.

So why wait? Today is a new day, today is your new year. LIVE THE BEAUTY OF LIFE, CHERISH AND CELEBRATE LIFE!

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Do you think everyday should be a new year?

Do you celebrate life? Please leave comments down below.

Poetry: My Definition Of Life (Cosmic Earth Poem)

April 22, 2015 by Jivan Wild Leave a Comment

My Definition Of Life (Cosmic Earth Poem)

Every time I walk through the forest I feel that is where i belong.

I feel a soothing calmness. The sounds of nature is music to my ears,

the lush vegetation and the tall trees surrounding me as the cool breeze ruffles through the leaves

I am at peace. forever rooted and connected to nature interwoven into the fabric of my being,

as the sun peaks through the branches gently kissing my skin as i inhale the sweet aroma of the earth.

frolicking in the beauty and the enjoying the splendors that is life.

As my bare feet grounds upon the rich earth below, entrenching my roots further into the earth.

I am home, as I am mentally stimulated by all of the vibrancy around me, the colors are candy for my mind’s eye.

I become one with my surroundings.

One with the universe.

Molecules scattered through time as time stand stills, living in the moment.

My mind opened to the wonders around me.

Hypnotized by the beauty that enchants me.

Connected to the earths core, branching out to the universe,

my soul interconnected with the stars,

dancing on the moon that glows upon my skin at night.

This my brothers and sisters is my definition of life..

Message From Beyond The Grave (Near Death Experience)

August 12, 2014 by Jivan Wild 2 Comments

Message from beyond the grave

As I lay here on my grave, a rotting corpse, bones, a remnant of what used to be life. I write this message for those who take life for granted and for those that don’t realize how short life truly is and how little we cherish it.

This past weekend, I died. In an instant my life was taken from me as I just begun to start living. Sure I was a little negligent but death lurks on every corner, with every blink of our eye, with every breath we take and for me, with the very last step we take.

“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.”

-David Searls

You see this past weekend I was feeling adventurous and decided to head down this cliff on this beach. Having fun, snapping pictures. When I decided to go down a little further and as I went down, I stepped on a rock that started to tumble and roll backwards on this 2 foot platform.

As the rock tumbled off the rock. I went backwards and off of the rock, landing on the jagged rocks below, instantly ending my life as my soul escaped the prison of my body into the vast nothingness.

I am no more. Just fragments as the blood gushes out back to the sea, I remained lifeless, dull and in that instance, time stood still because time was no more.

“Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully live to love.”
― Lailah Gity Akita

I won’t know what it is like to have lived, because I truly didn’t live at all. I won’t know what it is to grow old, as I died young. I won’t know what it is like to visit another country because I hardly traveled.

For the latter part of my life, I, as many do, sold most of my time away. Just to “survive”. Just to “exist”. Not realizing that i never existed at all. With all that precious time that i gave away, I was already dead. I, just like many, didn’t realize it until it was too late. We are just walking corpses trying to get by in this realm we call life.

What is life if you don’t realize that you are indeed alive. What is life if you are confined into a box of your own making as you shackle your mind and your body from reality. Just like how our souls are trapped in a body. We take life for granted.We have neglected life and the beauty of life, just like how we have neglected this earth and all it’s beauty.

“You call it a near death experience, I call it a near life experience!”
― LJ Vanier

Why did I take a risk of going down that cliff. Well, in this life we live in fear as fear was instilled in us from birth. We fear to go out and live, we fear to take chances and risk, to take that leap. fear to even go out because it is not safe. We are truly afraid of death.

Once you let that fear consume you, you might as well be dead. Because once you live in fear, that is when you lose your freedom. I learned to not live in fear, but to live in the here and now. To live life with no regrets and no what ifs. Now sure there are some great risk in life we should not take, not saying we should be daredevils and risk takers. But to use logic and reason.

“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” – Marcus Aurelius

If you read my previous blog, the path we choose. This blog could have been something that could have been written from beyond the grave as I did not fall down that cliff, but it could have been. The rock stopped just short from tumbling off the edge of the platform, which stopped my momentum from continuing to go backwards.

Although looking back at it, I am surprised that I didn’t completely go off that ledge down to my demise. I do have cat-like reflects and balance, maybe if I didn’t I would have fallen off.

What ultimately saved me, was the tips of my fingers of just one hand. As I quickly grabbed on to the jagged rocks on front of me. I grabbed on to that son of a bitch with a kung-fu grip. The tips of my fingers bled and I still managed to hold on to the cannabis flag which was held on my left hand.

“Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.” – Plato

My heart almost came out of my body and my body started to shake at the impending thought of my own death. That’s the path I could have taken and I would have been just an empty void. I would have been a martyr for all the things that I have said about life being short to many people, I would have proven it by utter stupidity. In the end, our lives are just like how I saved myself. Just a fingertip tip away from death.

Now I might not consider this a near death experience, my life is did not flash on front of my eyes. But everything happened suddenly that I just did not realize anything but the rock on front of me and realizing that,

“oh shit, I am going backwards and must turn into a ninja cat.”

But I believe everyday is a near death experience, as we are inches away from death with every second that ticks by.

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.” – Dag Hammarskjöld

The following picture was taken just seconds prior to what could have been death and it would have been the last picture I would have taken..

As you can see on the picture, the rock below is the platform which is much smaller than how it looks. I would have fallen down on to those rocks below and chances of surviving that fall is slim to none.

But I won’t be resting in peace. I will be living the shit out of my life. The only life I have, won’t be sold away to the highest bidder as we continue to sell ourselves as I wrote here. My time is worth more than to slave it away for someone else. I want to live dammit.

I don’t want to look back to find out that I never lived at all. Life is certainly an uncertainty. But life is a wonderful voyage through time taking us to places unknown. You only have this one chance to truly live it. To experience the destination. Our bodies are truly the prison of the soul, but that’s only if you shackle your body and stay grounded, when in life you can truly fly.

“And when the Earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” – Kahlil Gibran

Have you ever had a near death experience. What did you think of what I wrote?

Please leave comments down below. Would love to hear from you.

The path we choose

May 13, 2014 by Jivan Wild Leave a Comment

The path we choose. In this beautiful one life that we live we are confounded with choice. We are left with our mind and with our wits to make decisions and these decisions we make have a profound impact in our lives. It is the road we take in life, the path we choose that take us on a journey, for life is a wonderful journey wound by an enigma. We face the dark windy roads that could lead further down hill or to the scenic route of sunshine. Every step we take and with every thought we take, we send ripples through time., changing our very fabric of being. We exist. With sometimes must face the road of darkness in a solitary journey to find the road to happiness as we must take detours along the way in this bumpy road we call life. No one said life would be easy as life never comes with an instruction manual or a map that directs us to where we go. Life does not come with a GPS system navigating us through torrential terrain. We are the ones who direct the ship for it is our own selves who must break through walls and obstacles that get in our way and those obstacles are what makes us who we are. But we can’t let those obstacles bring us down or weigh us down as we dredge though life as those are the things that get attach to us, slowing us down from getting to where we need to be.

Now i might be rambling on, but i would not be here in this path that i choose or was redirected to my original path if i was not fired from my well paying job in NYC. I would not be here blogging, i would not have made this transformation that i have made. I would not have evolved into what i was supposed to be. Now who knows if the road i took is still the right one, there are more roads to take that will keep evolving who i am as a person, as a being, as this soul. When i was fired, i was thrown into a vortex, spinning out of control. My world as i knew it was no longer the one i was on. I was spit out and i now had to take control of my own fate and my own destination. If i was not fired, chances are i would have been on that same road going, veering towards another direction with the same concrete mentality that i had and to reiterate what the concrete mentality is, it is your mind blocked from seeing the landscape of the world, living your life in a bubble, rushing through it, with the only concern of making as much money as possible. Not living in the moment. I would have still been caught up in a world of materialism and consumerism, trying to buy happiness, only to never find it. I would have gone down another road, perhaps leading to another life than the one i am living now. The way i think now was attributed to that road i took. My experiences shaped and evolved who i am from who i was.

The ripple effect now affects everyone. From those coworkers who called me friend to the people i know now, which i would never have known if i was not on this detour in life. But who is to say if our paths would not have crossed in another time, in another road as all our paths are meant to be crossed for a reason. I admit i was an ugly person then and i still strive to improve the person that i will become tomorrow and it is all attributed to the road i chose. Suffice to say, if i was to have stayed on that same path, i would not have met all the people i had. I would have been living in this false paradigm. This illusion i woke up from. Still trying to achieve the goal of the so called American dream. Aiming for that nice big house, with the nice new car. Have kids and live happily ever after. We either face the facts the hard way though these arduous detours or we choose for ourselves on that path we take. We can either truly evolve the way we see the road on front of us and pave the way or we can go down the road with a flat tire, constantly filling it only to end flat again, as with my case until i realized that i am the one who chooses my own path and i will run over all the obstacles on front of me. and sure sometimes the universe conspires to change your fate, but it is up to you to not let it control your destination and leave your life in auto-pilot. You take control and steer it right back in course and just take the bumps and never look back and continue forward. We just become stronger from all the bumps we take and that is the goal. Never let it make you weak, never dwell for every life experience is a wrinkle in time that makes you who you are today, we just cant let us bring us down, we just get right up and keep moving forward.