Lets Be Like the Jar of Salsa!

I remember breaking down the other day and with all of the arguably bad things weighting me down in my life, turned to the love of my life and said "I feel liking I am loosing myself and barely know who I am anymore". To me being lost was bad, I feel empty, and I was looking at that emptiness as loneliness something defining something that I wasn't sure how to overcome. I remember someone saying that I was taking the road less traveled, goddess somedays I resent Robert Frost. It's just like Kid President said, "I took the road less traveled by....And it hurt!...There were rocks...and glass...and my pants broke!...Why Robert Frost?".

Empty to many of us, has come to represent sadness, unfulfillment and loss.

But what if I set an empty jar down in front of you? And what if the jar had been full of delicious salsa in its previous life, but it isn't now, it is just a scraped semi-clean empty jar with imperfections. The label is missing and all of the obnoxious glue is still on the outside. But what if I told you, you could fill it with more of anything, you could even fill it with more salsa! Or glitter or pictures or memories. And you would totally do that right? You would give the jar purpose again...I mean why wouldn't you?

Then how is it in our own lives that we are not the jar we would so readily fill, when we are lost and feel empty?

I am a vessel, you are a vessel, if we are like the jar then we will fill our vessels with whatever we want. If I feel empty, then I can fill myself with not only the things I already am, but also with the things I want to be. I can turn the dreams into things I am and so can you. You can fill your jar with whatever you want! And when we start to feel empty, maybe we will stop seeing it as such a bad thing, because it's not. It is Life giving us a wake-up call, telling us not to be okay with what we are perceiving to by normal, shouting at us to be more, calling for action.

I know that when I am home and I have an empty jar, I fill it with things I love: glass stones, ceramics stones, flowers, plants, paintbrushes, the colorful water from the brushes I have used to paint with, food, ice cream, all sorts of things that I love!

We are the glass jar, and sometimes, yes, we are empty but we are never gone. And when you feel empty, you can fill yourself right up, maybe you won't have the same things that were in your last jar, but that is so totally and incredibly okay, and maybe you will have the same things, and that is also totally okay. Any maybe you can't fill it by yourself in which case you should totally ask others to help you out and they will put things in that make them happy and you happy.

So, let us be like the Jar of Salsa, sometimes full, sometimes brimming over, sometimes empty. And let us remember that all of those things can be good.

The ability to love oneself, empty or full is quite a feat indeed.
I look forward to the next time wanderers!
Love,
Sossina <3

P.S.(Look at that jar! It is filled with honey and honeycomb from my friends bees! What a happy vessel it must be indeed)