Sometimes life
hurts. Sometimes life even hurts a lot. Sometimes it feels like everybody is on
a fruitless journey towards happiness; like walking up a downward moving
escalator, we never quite seem to make it to the top. Sometimes we do make it
to the top of certain things: career, the “ideal” body image, dream home, dream
car, social circles, etc.; only to discover the top doesn't yield that all
enveloping and interminable happiness we collectively desire.
Succumbing to the pull of the downward moving escalator at times feels like the easiest and, to be honest, the most seemingly logical action. But succumbing won’t help in achieving happiness. Happiness lies in the constant movement upward. And it especially dwells within the horizontal movements: the moments where we focus on the doing, rather than the getting done. The horizontal encompasses living within each moment: feeling, discovering, being alive with all of our senses. The horizontal escapes the chronological quest for progress, where we are constantly looking forward to a better place, a better life, a better situation. Living horizontally allows us to connect with the present world we live in and the present people we live amongst; and most significantly, it allows us to find joy and happiness within such connections.
This blog is an effort to help us in our effort to move forward vertically by learning to live more horizontally. By learning to observe, see, feel, taste, and connect we begin to experience a multi-dimensional, fulfilling life. Bloom desires to aid in this prospective blossoming of long term plenitude and happiness in women, women from all locations and life situations.
Bloom: /bloom/
verb. to flourish, to grow, to bear flowers
noun. a healthy, vigorous, or flourishing condition
(Image: "Duluth" Brent Schoepf via Flickr )