The Soul Searching Project — Chapter 2 —Enjoy the stillness of your journey

And as comforting as it might sound, we are rarely used to doing that.

Walking down a hiking trail or down the street is usually a process with an end goal in which stillness doesn’t have any contribution. You have to keep walking to reach your destination. Wait for too long and suddenly the journey takes another route, not physically, but mentally.

The reality stays the same, and life keeps happening as it should, but getting accustomed to every change means you get new opportunities. One of them is to discover the beauty of stillness in a process focused only on movement.

Nature has a beautiful way of proving that each aspect of the growth process is as filled with details as we are capable of understanding. Growth happens in the right conditions, while everything else takes its usual course in due time.

While we cannot fast-forward in the future to skip the slower moments in life, we can learn to stop checking the time and milestones we have been measuring for so long.

Experiences are timeless.

We never consider them to be a certain amount of hours long because the impact keeps them outside the temporal space of our minds. We can relieve them at any given point inside our hearts, and feel them with almost the same intensity as we did in the real moment.

Stillness never really occurs, but rather is a carefully slowed-down moment when many surprises reveal themselves. You probably had this feeling too.

Crying is one of the few examples that shows in many details how slowing down occurs, the crucial moments, and why it matters to take a slower route, rather than rushing wherever we want to reach.

You can burst into tears, or wait for them to come out while you’re processing your feelings. But as long as you know it’s going to happen, many things already did.