The quest…

I have this feeling
that everyone else is working harder than me
and I’m going to be left behind
cause I’m not working fast enough, long enough.

I don’t sit down to have breakfast
I take it to go
I call my mother when I’m free, otherwise
it takes too long to have a conversation.

I put off everything that
won’t bring me closer to my dreams
as if the things I’m putting off
are not the dream themselves?

Isn’t the dream
that I have a mother to call
and a table to eat breakfast at?

I learned to plant seeds in the ground
and expect flowers the next day at work.

but magic doesn’t work like that
magic doesn’t happen cause I’ve figured out how to
pack more work in a day
magic happens when we play
when we escape
daydream and imagine
that’s where everything
with the power to fulfill us
is waiting on it’s knees for us.

– Rupi Kaur