Which Way is Up?

Which way is up?
The simplicity of life seems to be consumed too easily
consumed by materialistic “needs”
consumed by busy schedules and unfulfilled desires.
why can’t we slow down?
just put life on pause and breathe
breathe in the epic simplicity of life and just let it be.
why do we have to complicate everything?
Maliciously twist every beautiful free moment we have;
turning it into a jagged shard of time that we dread and barely get past.
So which way is up? Where do we go from here?
How do we fix the ever changing tide of time and stress and life?
Just get back to the root of it all to be able to breathe again.
All you can do is live the here and now;
get through it and push forward.
Choke and suffocate on the worries and pressures of today,
so you can breath tomorrow;
quenching your perpetual thirst and indulging in the simplicity of life which we have allowed to be so easily consumed.