I Call Your Bluff

A bluff: in poker used as a term to deceive, to mislead and to throw an opponent off.

I haven't been feeling very inspired to write the past few days and like any true artist, I need my inspiration. It has not been for lack of things to write about because let me tell you, I've been busy keeping up with my "A-List" lifestyle. Bet

ween work, trying to make some progress on my thesis and knocking things off my bucket list I still couldn't manage to come up with anything.

Tonight, like any other night, I decided to go for a walk. Partly because I was bored, partly because I was procrastinating and partly because I'm trying to stay in shape in the city of tanned perfection. Near the end of my walk I found myself sitting on a bench near the edge of the bluff that LMU so gracefully sits upon.

The bluff has become such an integral part of my life here at LMU. In fact, I frequent it on nearly a nightly basis around 8 p.m. I need the bluff like Lindsey Lohan needs rehab. It's become a part of who I am. But tonight was different than any other night. There I was taking in everything I could with all of my senses. I could smell the beautiful flowers surrounding me, I could hear the sound of bustling cars, chirping birds and sounding crickets. I could see the hills, downtown Los Angeles and the rest of the city and I could nearly taste the sweet smell of the ocean afar.

There I was surrounded by such beauty! Surrounded by so much, yet still surrounded by a small fraction of what the world has to offer. There I was such a miniscule piece of the intricate puzzle that we call our existence. A miniscule piece that is still so integral to the whole. For any puzzle missing its piece is not complete. The bluff taught me a lot tonight about being focused, being in the zone and yet realizing that its A-OK to just "be". From sitting on top of the bluff I could see so much, yet so much is so little in retrospect. I was there experiencing what I and others dream of, yet experiencing what some may never dare to dream.

I challenge you to find your own "LMU Bluff". I challenge you to find what it is that put's it all into perspective and I challenge you to do something with that very same perspective you have probably had all along.

So on this Tuesday, the 22nd day of the month of June I leave you readers with one question:

Could it be that all of the things we worry about, all of the things that are so minor in comparison to the large scope of life are all just our own self imposed bluffs?