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Modern life is full.

Crowded cities, crowded malls,
advertisements on the screen,
in windows, on cars, on walls,
stuff to keep, stuff to toss,
always more, better, worse,
newer, more vintage,
improved, nostalgic,
custom-designed,
just to fit in...

...information and material
overload.

So many people, races,
places, faces, systems,
beliefs, religions,
so many definitions...

...decisions.

Always changing, always moving,
staying put and standing strong,
trending or timeless,
here and now or forever true?

Which one is me and which one is you?

We're too different, we're too much the same,
we compliment each other,
we contrast too starkly,
we're in two different lanes,
running two different ways...

...but we can relate.

I want steak, but they've got beef jerky
right now.
Let me have my fill until
dinner time, I'll fit it in somehow.

I want a home but I'm renting a place,
one day if I have enough saved,
I can eventually buy my own space.

But tomorrow is never promised,
so I just do with whatever life gives me now
and if I never get what I want, then that's okay...

...is it really?

No, if I want to enjoy my steak
and own my space,
I have to delay what works for "just now"
in lieu of acquiring what I truly want,
forgoing the taste and keeping space
for something truly great.

There's no room for placeholding,
cause a placeholder takes the place
of what is meant to exist in that space,
and why would I allow myself to waste
the energy and time needed to cultivate
an environment and life ready for the truth
in lieu of entertaining what is here for "just now"
versus being patient and focusing on

my family's and my needs during the wait?

Indeed...

There are stepping stones to get me my own space,
the perfect career and the right mate,
but caution must be taken to prevent the mistake
of allowing such stepping stones to become placeholders blocking the space
I need for all those long-lasting things that my heart's desires are aiming to (in this life) create.