You live the life you choose
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You drink ten liters of beer every night in front of the television while your family tiptoe around you. Your wife is terrified of you and you call your daughter a whore when you’re drunk. And in your sober moments you wonder why your child hates you so much.
You dance the night away or huddle in dark corners drugged out, stoned, intoxicated… in the guise of fun and living the good life. You wait and watch the sunrise. Your mind cannot sleep.
You lose yourself in piles of work, busyness, unending deadlines and calendars filled with appointments.
You do not have the courage to confront the questions head on:
Why are you angry and bitter?
Why do you self-destruct?
Why aren’t you living the life you want?
In your waking moments you complain how you’re not getting enough sleep and that there’s too little time to accomplish what’s on the to-do list. It is dark outside, the weather is gloomy, how you hate it when it rains. And it goes on and on.
It is quite hard to maintain a positive attitude when the universe doesn’t align with your wishes.
If you stop the incessant chatter and make room for the stillness and the silence in your head, then maybe you can hear the inner child within and make peace.
If you cannot see the beauty in the savage waves raging against the shores on a stormy weather, it is not because it’s not there.
If those tiny little hands curling around your finger do not capture your heart because all you hear is the never-ending wailing, then you’ve just missed a most precious moment.
Why are you so lost?
You have complete power at every moment to change the things you are unhappy with. Or you can choose to be happy and turn unfortunate events into opportunity.
It has never been about how wonderful your tomorrow will be; it has always been about how you live today.
that is soooo right!
thank you once again for the reminders, :-)
Hello! I’m ofel’s friend / ex-officemate and she gave me the link to your blog 2 weeks ago. I’ve been lurking here for a few days, but I could say that this post struck me the most. Most especially this sentence :
“It has never been about how wonderful your tomorrow will be; it has always been about how you live today.”
Thank you for the reminder to hear the inner child within, which seems to be hard with all the stress we encounter in our everyday life. Can i just say that you inspire me to be a better blogger? :)