What another thinks or does does not matter
Many people are fearful of death and therefore often fearful of life itself. They let life go by, blind, hoping that some day a miracle will happen. That everything will get better. But how? They fail to see that they themselves are the shapers of their lives. That they themselves hold all the potential to create a life that makes them happy.
Many people weigh their lives against that of their parents, their loved ones and their community. Usually, they do not want change. They would rather leave everything as it is, rather than make changes, introducing more love, happiness and joy into their lives. Life is allowed to feel good! It is allowed to have an excess of joy. Why settle for less than joy.
Life is all about you
Isn't it strange that we make ourselves victims of our own illusions? Start once, by disagreeing. Distance yourself from the other person's thinking and start looking at yourself. What do you want to achieve in life? What do you want to experience, after all, life is all about you. How do you think you can be of service to others if you cannot do this from your own core? Really act from yourself and experience joy in this without it being at the expense of who you are.
Don't live someone else's life
Why give your last penny if it will make you need help yourself? Sharing is different from just giving everything away. All matter is finite. So share in your help, in your attention, in your love and in your companionship. Be together so that being alone is no longer a fear, but a prayer to speak to yourself. Be in unity with who you really are. Not distance but rather rapprochement. Life is to be lived, to experience; not to relive what the other does to you.
Be grateful
Leave all the old with the old and create the new with abandon. Dare to be different, dare to change. Do not look at the other, but live your life. Don't let the other see your path, but only show that the other can also follow his own unique path. So that at the end of your life, you can say that you have lived. Not because of the known, but because of everything you did not know but have come to know. Through experience, perception and gratitude.
Written on 13 November 2013
