Sweet Ache of Being Alive

 

When the sweet ache of being alive,
lodged between who you are
and who you will be,
is awakened,
befriend this moment.
It will guide you.
... Its sweetness is what holds you.
Its ache is what moves you on.
-Mark Nepo

Art by Eduardo Rodriguez Calzado

 

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