Practicing the Question

“What do you want?”

This has always been
a struggle for me.
So I am practicing the question.

I want to live somewhere
surrounded more by trees
than by concrete.

I want enough space
in my life to be able
to chase the wonder.

I want to seek simplicity
in my life
and in my work.

I want people in my life
that I love and that love me
just as I am.

I want to learn
to accept myself
in the same way.

I want to own my regrets,
to learn from my mistakes,
and to pick myself up and try again.

I want to be able
to set down my phone
and walk away from it.

I want to spend
more time in the now
and less in the already was or the not yet.

I want to come to the end of my days
knowing that I lived.

Maybe I cannot give you
a five year plan,
my next three concrete steps,
or a marketing strategy,
but those things don’t
make sense to me.

And maybe I still
don’t have an answer,
but this is a start.