No one has their shit together

This phrase is how I sum up the simplest basic truth from any spiritual text: No one has their shit together - because you simply can't. Anyone who pretends to have it all together - well, it is just that: pretending.

Because it is humanly, physically, anything-ly impossible. Life is uncertainty. No matter how overcautious you are, how much you control and plan for, life will always just happen. And yes, this will throw you off, and piss you off, and make you sad, angry or hopeless at times. But it will also surprise you, bring you unknown dimensions of joy, happiness and peace. 

So why fight it? 

To keep it together? Before my burnout, it was my life's mission to pretend I am fine all the time. All it did was make myself feel exhausted and lonely. And not only me, but also the people around me.

And this does not really create a life worth living, if you ask me.

So today instead of building the skill of "keeping my shit together", of pretending and controlling, I am cultivating the strength to "be together" -of accepting the uncertainty of life and all my emotions that come with this, of truly being (me) with the people in my life. 

Is this always easy? Nope, but the more I commit to this, the easier life gets and the more I notice how damn worth it is living. 

You with me?