Being effortlessly at ease
May be the hardest thing in life
to achieve.

Without drink, without drugs, without approvals, or validations needed.

To just be.

Can be attained but often elusive.

Does that encapsulate us as humans as a whole?

That we really are just simply animals always ready for flight or fight, or to fall over and just play dead?

Surely so.

And there is no bad or good in that statement, it is just simply is.

To be at ease in any given situation
to be remain focused and discipline
without the palpitations of the heart, the sweating of palms, the electric tension coursing, the narrowing of your world as you are compressed by four walls, or being pulled like a soft taffy through a press,

These are all our bodily responses to a world that can be threatening, cruel, chaotic, slighting and apathetic, and lonely at times.

To be fully relaxed, however,
To be immersed in a seemingly forever flow of pleasure, to be wrapped up in rapture, pure and intense with nothing more than to feed your need to feel all the good that life could possibly offer is a gift when it comes and should always be cherished, held tightly to, and adored, for who knows when it may again.

This being at ease.

Seek it in life in all its forms, from nature, to friends, to lovers, to surprising adventures around the next corner of your life not yet written

Be bold in seeking it for you are most worthy of finding it.

By Philip Wardlow March 28th, 2025