Out of Body Experience
It is not the sensation when you are gravely ill
and you rise above your body in the bed.
That can be explained by some as a moment of near death,
or caused by shallow breathing as explained to me
by a nurse long ago.
It is something that a person comes to experience late in life
when looking back at the path traveled,
forcing yourself to pull outside your body
and see what others see.
How would you judge the person that is ‘you’?
Would you see a friendly and compassionate soul,
or a selfish ambitious person who attempts
to tread on others in an effort to succeed?
Would you see a self-confident happy soul,
or a sad and negative person who thinks that life itself
is against you, holding you back on what could have been?
Would you see a soul grateful for all that was given,
both good and bad, or a person who is bitter for a life
that failed to satisfy?
It is a good exercise to occasionally pull outside yourself
and reassess how you fill your tiny space in this vast world
in order to see how your life affects others.
Resolve to acknowledge what needs to be improved
while bidding farewell to the faults of the past.
Only then can you once again rejoin your soul
with renewed strength and purpose for the path ahead.
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