(There's Gotta Be) More to Life

When I start to feel like an existential crisis boiling within me, I think of this song. I think there's gotta be more to life... than drama... suffering... struggling... and the hustle. I'm alive and I'm just grateful to be here, to have my physical and mental health and to be a physical form with functioning organs and with a consciousness. I don't want to be a drone. I want to be present and experience life fully.

I started reading Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre. I'm slowly digesting the language and concept behind existentialism and phenomenology. It's quite complex, but I'm glad I'm finally reading about it and by the end of it, I hope to have a better understanding of life and existence. I need to spend more time to educate myself. Life is about appreciating the beauty it has to offer, learning about its wonders, protecting and preserving our planet and humanity and accepting and respecting ourselves and each other. The human condition.

I've got it all, but I feel so deprived

I go up, I come down and I'm emptier inside

Tell me what is this thing that I feel like I'm missing

And why can't I let it go

There's gotta be more to life

Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me

Cause the more that I'm

Tripping out thinking there must be more to life

Well it's life, but I'm sure... there's gotta be more

Than wanting more 

I've got the time and I'm wasting it slowly

Here in this moment, I'm half way out the door

Onto the next thing, I'm searching for something that's missing

I'm wanting more

I'm always waiting on something other than this 

Why am I feelin' like there's something I missed