Life Is Connection
and on how to be more present, from someone who also struggles with it
We often think of life as a collection of separate events, people, and moments. But the more I pay attention, the more I realize that life isn’t made of things. Life is made of connections.
Connection is the meeting point where life becomes real. It is the way sounds, senses, people, and nature influence one another in the present moment. Connection is the link between you and everything around you, the vibration that makes an experience alive.
Take a sound as an example, it only exists because something vibrates, air carries it, and our ears receive it. Music is nothing more than a connection of sounds woven together. Nature is a living network of organisms depending on each other in ways we can barely comprehend. Even a simple moment of taste, smell, or touch is a chain of connections between the world and our senses.
When we don’t feel the connections around us, we start living in the future or the past. We imagine stories, chase expectations, replay memories. But none of that is real. The only real moment is the one where connection happens: now.
To be present is to feel life connecting itself around you.
Next time you’re in nature, let the sounds layer over each other. Listen to leaves moving, water flowing, and birds calling, not as separate noises, but as one living conversation. It means slowing down when you eat, letting the flavors rise, mix, and dissolve. It means letting music enter you, noticing how each note relies on the one before it.
This is why the past and the future lose their power when you tune into what is happening right now. They are ideas, not experiences. They do not vibrate. They do not breathe. They do not connect. Only the present does.
Connections create life, and being alive is about feeling those connections, feeling the energy they generate. Go to nature, close your eyes, feel life!
To appreciate life, appreciate connection. The more we recognize this, the more alive we become.
– Matt Delac
You just made me want to go for a long walk in nature. Living in a big city makes it easy to forget that you’re part of something bigger. The more people around you, the easier it is to feel alone.
Thanks for the reminder, Matt.
Dear Matt, this piece captures so beautifully how powerful the unspoken can be.
The quiet tension, the fleeting moments, the unanswered questions — they all linger long after the words end.
Sometimes silence holds more truth than anything we dare to say. ☺️