At five I was just starting school. My life was split in between a new found intellectual culture, new friends, and caring teachers and the memories of climbing trees, clear skies, and a growing to be wild childhood.
Sweet fifteens came quick, high school escapades, puppy loves, and a life ahead eager to be discovered.
At twenty, when most of us are trying to figure out what to do with our lives, I had already pretty much chosen mine; a mother already and a career on halt.
Thirties came as an avalanche of drastic change and decisions, new world, new dreams, the lift off of an undreamed path. This was the grounding into the world below.
Now, in my forties, when I look back at those years, I see a life of no regrets where opportunities were taken, mistakes turned into lessons, and life lived. I have touched and savored all my goals, my relationships, my good as well as the not so good moments. As life has gone by, only one thing remains unchanged, my love and respect for the family, the value of friendships as a stronghold, and my love for just being here, still living in the wild side of an amazing journey.
What you just read is real. I consider it a drill in values. Although I am a firm promoter of staying in the present moment, reviewing our past could be helpful when a check up in values and beliefs is needed. Like everything in life, we all change. What kind of world would this be if everything and everyone would remain static? Change is always good. It adds excitement and joy. It makes us thrive, constantly reaching for a star. How have you changed over the years? Did your childhood fantasies became real? What was important to you then? What is important to you now?
In acknowledging our old beliefs and values and how they served or didn’t serve us we position ourselves at the top of the mountain from where we are able to see everything without being directly affected. From there then we can throw away what is not beneficial for us anymore and welcome the new, re-writing our story accepting, changing and taking action for our today.
Sweet fifteens came quick, high school escapades, puppy loves, and a life ahead eager to be discovered.
At twenty, when most of us are trying to figure out what to do with our lives, I had already pretty much chosen mine; a mother already and a career on halt.
Thirties came as an avalanche of drastic change and decisions, new world, new dreams, the lift off of an undreamed path. This was the grounding into the world below.
Now, in my forties, when I look back at those years, I see a life of no regrets where opportunities were taken, mistakes turned into lessons, and life lived. I have touched and savored all my goals, my relationships, my good as well as the not so good moments. As life has gone by, only one thing remains unchanged, my love and respect for the family, the value of friendships as a stronghold, and my love for just being here, still living in the wild side of an amazing journey.
What you just read is real. I consider it a drill in values. Although I am a firm promoter of staying in the present moment, reviewing our past could be helpful when a check up in values and beliefs is needed. Like everything in life, we all change. What kind of world would this be if everything and everyone would remain static? Change is always good. It adds excitement and joy. It makes us thrive, constantly reaching for a star. How have you changed over the years? Did your childhood fantasies became real? What was important to you then? What is important to you now?
In acknowledging our old beliefs and values and how they served or didn’t serve us we position ourselves at the top of the mountain from where we are able to see everything without being directly affected. From there then we can throw away what is not beneficial for us anymore and welcome the new, re-writing our story accepting, changing and taking action for our today.
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