You Are Remarkable. Live Like It.

We are surrounded by remarkable occurrences, circumstances, and events quite literally all of our lives and in every direction we can look. That is why it is astonishing that anything on earth could make you think you yourself are anything less than remarkable, too. That is why it is heartbreaking that there are so many people living half-hearted, half-lit, half-lived lives.

Isn’t it cute, how we can look around and see our entire universe conspiring in our favor and still think to ourselves, “I’m not anything special or worthwhile.” As if the sun isn’t in the most precise and perfect place to keep our planet warm and healthy. As if our lungs aren’t breathing and hearts aren’t beating for us in this very moment. As if nature and art and water don’t exist. As if your own existence itself isn’t miraculous.

Maybe you and I aren’t anything special (i mean, who knows, it’s possible that everything is meaningless), but I do believe that because we are here, you and I must be inherently worthy of good and beautiful things. Of a good and beautiful life. We wouldn’t have this opportunity to live one wild and precious life if we weren’t worthy of it, right? This is why that question (you know the one, that will never be asked better than Mary Oliver wrote it) aches within us to be answered… “What are going to do with your one wild and precious life?”

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life? What stories, dreams, and adventures do you want to live?

You get one life to be expressed. You get one life to love in the way that only you can. You get one life to make art, to share beautiful moments with others, to lay in the sun in the summer. You get one life to chase your dreams and change your mind and make mistakes and fall and then get up and heal and turn that pain into something meaningful and beautiful. Trying to bubble wrap yourself from those experiences is dishonoring to the potential your life experience holds, and the potential you hold. You aren’t here to insulate yourself from feeling - you are here to feel and learn and be moved to flourish within it all.

The preciousness of your life deserves more than a half-hearted effort. The preciousness of your life deserves more than you choking down your ideas, wearing masks to fit in or play smaller than you are, or hiding your light. The preciousness of your life deserves you doing your absolute best to live a story that is meaningful, fulfilling, and radiant. The preciousness of your life deserves you living that story in your way.

If you want to honor this life you have the chance to live, you have to also honor yourself. Because your own existence itself is miraculous. From where I see it, because you exist you are inherently remarkable. The preciousness of your life deserves to be passionately and intentionally pursued. Crafted, even. The most meaningful thing you can do for yourself and the world around you is dare to live a life that is not only your own, but that is just as remarkable as you are.

Get out there and make some Good Light.

Xx Riley Reign

This is my personal plea to you —

If not for yourself, for the people you love. If not for yourself, for the things that you believe in. Each and every one of us has people in our lineage that we know had unlived stories that we wish could have come to life. Do not let your story be one of an unlived life. Do your best to be an embodiment of what you believe in, and to become everything you once dreamed of.

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