Live Fully

Live Fully

Life is full of waiting.  We find ourselves waiting for the perfect job, the perfect mate, the perfect circumstances to make changes, waiting for the perfect time to initiate action.  We wait in hope that life will throw us a lifeline that will take us in the direction we wish our lives to go.  Before long, we have waited an eternity and old age and death begins to knock loudly on the doors, not begging to be let in but barging its way in swiftly and without care.  This past year has taught me so much about life, love, and the need to live life in its full capacity without waiting for the dominoes to line up in a straight line.  The waiting we do for life to miraculously fix itself is our shameless  way of taking the easy way out, a way to slice the responsibility away from our hands, a way to play the victim.  The journey of life was not meant to be put on hold until something better comes along; it was meant for each moment whether good or bad to bloom with full ripeness like a fruit bearing on a tree.  It was meant to be lived with full awareness and accountability, we hold the key that can potentially unlock the door to our happiness. 

As time goes by in my life which just seems to be flying by like the wind I’m beginning to understand that life is a living and moving tapestry with vibrant colors some of which will go outside the lines wanting to escape the imprisonment of those boundaries to experience its own fate and I’m okay with that.  Okay with the fact that my life won’t always travel the straight and narrow, that I will have moments of weakness but ever present to experience each fully.  I love life, I love me, and I love all the experiences that life throws my way, even the ones that have brought me to tears.  These are the ones I remember the most because I was open fully to the magic of feeling.   I've come to accept the fact that people will come and go in my life, they may have been sent to be my angel or guru for a moment for a lesson to be learned and I fully embrace this point. 

I've learned that attachment to anyone or anything holds danger as I find it difficult to let go and move on,  instead  I choose to forgive the past and live in the present.  So my advice, don’t wait for life to show you the way because that train might never come or even scarier you might have missed it.  Have the courage to break cycles to a better life, to speak the truth and to stand up for you.   Waiting is not an option.  What will you say to the future you when you’ve waited for life to find its way to you and you find yourself in the same place?  What will you do when time is no longer on your side?  Live fully, to hell with always choosing what’s safe.  Open up to a robust plate of kick ass living, you only get one shot.  Ready, set, live!