What if you already had
every ingredient for happiness
inside the pantry of yourself
instead of endlessly seeking
all of the world
for the future that may never come?
Would you need more compassion
and less judgment?
An extra cup of self-love
and only a pinch of worry?
Teaspoons of sunlight and laughter and fresh air and embraces
sprinkled into the dull dough of daily life?
What if kneaded with kindness and tenderness,
not boiled with anger and impatience?
So often we think
the things we seek
are somewhere to be found
when in truth
the recipe can only be
written by us.