Short stories

The Beat of Our Hearts

The beats of our hearts are a representation of what we do in our daily lives. Whether we put ourselves through pain and grief or love and sacrifice. Our hearts suffer going through it as we do. By pumping our blood in the veins and arteries based on our emotions and workout regime. Trying to calm our beating hearts in anxiety, PTSD, fear, and sadness. Through a blockage of emotion that could travel to a plain of white or for verbal use in life. Going through the grief and sadness of losing someone close and dear to you. Where it pains you to breathe; to see; to speak, no matter the attempts for it to come out. Where we spill our hearts' contents of what we all feel in the moment of strong emotion. Sacrificing our dreams and hopes for that one or more special person/people in our lives as we travel down the dirt road to the end. Just living our destined life that was written in the celestial maps above. Pushing through courage in challenges whether it be little or small and using our strength to pull it off. Meet the people we meet and let the people who didn't stay go as we travel the dirt road. Looking to the future that we will soon walk through and anxious to do so. But as Lao Tzu once said, "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present."