Oatmeal & Eggs

Of late, my favorite breakfast currently is steel cut oatmeal with three sunny-side up eggs. Steel cut, sunny-side up. I call it savory oatmeal, but a lot of people call it strange. For one who’s never tried it, combining two breakfast staples like this seems odd, even appalling. I get it—I was one of those people once. But I tried it, and that changed everything.

I’m trying to think back to the first time I dropped the perfectly cooked sunny-side up eggs into a bowl of pain oats and I can’t picture it. It’s astounding how alien it is the first time you perform a ritual. It doesn’t make sense to you or anybody else, but you’ve heard it works. So you go for it, all the way. Oatmeal in eggs. Cold shower. Sandals with jeans. Freedom from fear of judgment, openness to a new way of living.

This is a new way of living: being open to new experiences, having our souls be free to explore this world free from shackles of false beliefs. Today can be the first day for you, the first day of a new ritual or lifestyle. All you need is a will stronger than your desire for permanence.

Go to a Concert

If you’re struggling, in a funk, or out of ideas, go to a concert headlining a band you’ve never heard of. You will be around people you’re not used to and hear the battle cries of a tribe you don’t belong to. Music will sound new and fresh. Rhymes will feel like daggers in your chest. You’ll see dance moves you never knew were possible.

And maybe, just maybe, you’ll see yourself in these strangers—you, just living a different life. You might experience a feeling of unity and oneness. This will be worth the price of admission.

You have only to take a risk and the opportunity to grow will present itself.