How you can become everything you ever wanted to be

Painting by Jim White

Pack your bags.

Scratch that. Empty them out.

Dump all your possessions on the floor. Take a photo. Walk out of the house.

Take the photo and apply a piece of tape to it. Pin it on a tree in the woods.

You are now becoming everything you wanted to be.

In the process you will leave footprints. On dirt roads. In snowy paths. On fresh poured concrete. Along the ceilings of hotel rooms. In the sand soon to be washed away by the tide.

You might purchase a new bag. Fill it with clothes, essentials, memories, artifacts, souvenirs.

Once again, dumping the collection on a carpet or tile floor. This time keeping the backpack. Placing a big bag of rice in there. To carry a weighted load along your travels.

To walk out into the ocean. One with the whales, stars and salt.

You have become what you always wanted to be.

Even though your mind, never knew.