"LIFE IS A PARTY" - A Manifest to live with ease

S'lebm isch a Fescht

tyrolian [austro-bavarian]; equiv. eng.: "life is a party"

There were times in my life where everything around me was perfect. The sun was shining, all my loved ones have been safe, healthy and close. Nothing was missing. And yet, I couldn’t see it, because the darkness in my mind was louder than the beauty around me.

And that’s when I started to understand that this darkness was not real, rather a well implemented illusion, a painful thought loop convincing me that this was the only truth.

The moment I realized that this was just happening in my head, I learned that I could let it pass. I learned that I can be the one who decides what kind of thoughts I want to have in my head.

I embrace the whole spectrum of emotions. Anger, grief, joy, happiness, they all come from the same core. If we’re honest, crying our eyes out hurts as much as laughing until our stomach cramps. Both are just our bodies saying, that “We are alive.”

Life is a party

If we look at the structure of a party, it is all there. The warm-up phase: getting ready, meeting people. Then the peak: the dancefloor, when all inhibition drops and you let the music take you. And finally, the crash: those strange hours after the party where we might be still in motivation, but our body just wants to melt into a bed and claims a pause.

That’s how life moves, if we are brave enough to really live it. The emotional rollercoaster – the highs, the lows – they are the point of life. When we are in a low, we can trust the high is already on its way. If our emotional state never shifts, if everything always feels the same, them maybe we are missing something.

If I had stayed stuck in that illusion of sadness on that perfect summer day, I would have missed the life waiting for me on the other side. And maybe every day since would have looked the same inside me. Instead, I decided to move, to feel everything and to let it pass. And with that, life was won.