Your Body is Not a Temple
Your body is not a temple.
What it is is a 1988 four bedroom, Modern Colonial with attached garage and refurbished brick facade.
A real find. The perfect combination of cozy and smart investing.
The kitchen isn’t renovated, but!
it is in exactly the right place at exactly the right time
so it will only go up in value.
The bones are good so the sky is really the limit.
It’s not the Taj Mahal, but who want’s to live in a mausoleum?
Can’t you feel how much life you could live here?
Isn’t it just spilling out the walls?
The layout was designed with family in mind.
So it does feel lonely when it’s just you but there’s always room for more company!
I think with some time you’ll find you really come to love the space.
There’s a certain type of peace to only hearing your echoes bouncing around.
You could take up weaving or get really into yoga.
You could find yourself all within the comfort of your own home.
There’s been a lot of pizza in the living room and too many beers in the yard
but don’t you think it makes the place seem well loved?
Heavy renovations can make homes so drafty, so lifeless don’t you think?
All those soulless 90 degree angles and that expanse of white paint.
The spaghetti sauce stain on the drywall and the crooked eave?
You just can’t manufacture that kind of charm.
At least that’s what I think.
Imagine yourself happy here.
The loveseat under the window catching you exactly where you like to plop at the end of long, summers days.
The halls so familiar you float softly throughout them in the dark night.
Your kids were born here.
You mourned your dad here.
You blew out every single one of your birthday candles here.
So many memories baked into that perfect wallpaper you picked out.
All your favorite photos standing watch in your mind’s eye.
Like bottling the life you always wanted.
I know you’ve been renting
but it might be time to start calling the place home!
Really settle down in it for good.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know you’re gonna wake up somewhere you love everyday?
The line is ready for signing whenever you are!
What’s my commission on being right compared to a lifetime of refuge?
You’ll have to move fast.
Something this valuable doesn’t last forever.
You could be moved in, living your dream
in the blink of an eye.
The Prompts
Write a love letter to your body.
What would you like to be able to provide for your body and it to provide for you throughout your whole life?