We live in a time where we are all trying to keep afloat. There is a need to ensure that this rat race does not consume us and drown us in the many responsibilities that come with living. There is so much to do, so many dreams to achieve, so many places to go and such little time. In most cases, it almost feels like there simply is not enough hours in a day to get everything done. So much so that it gets overwhelming. It always feels like the moment one takes some time off to either rest or reboot, the work pile doubles upon return. This results in a feeling of guilt when one actually takes time off to rest. This is the reality of many people, and has become the catalyst to keep going, because the dream is that one day you will have achieved financial liberty to allow you to REALLY live.
To which one would have to pose the question; what does it mean to REALLY live?
Does that mean at present you are simply scrapping and getting by, whilst working towards the life you envision to be one equally balanced between work and rest? This ideology is something that we tend to look at as the end goal, where as if one looks around, it doesn’t seem to end. It starts to feel like one large maze that starts to spiral until you cannot catch a break. This may come with being ambitious and wanting more out of life, which is great, but to what price?
The price of living an unfulfilled life?
The greatest piece of advice I have ever received was from Ms. Kiki Ghebo, to which she told me that you should always live your life through the eyes of an 80 year old. It is in that that life will find new meaning, because at the age of 80, when one looks back, your life should have had meaning. You ought to have lived and done the things that bind you in fear right now. To have ensured that a failed relationship did not hold you down and drown you. That an absent father did not leave bitterness planted in your heart that you were too afraid to love. That a failed opportunity or business venture did not cripple you and force you back into working for someone else. That you lived, lived life every single day, regardless of the responsibilities that came with it. That you laughed and found a piece of joy every single day. That when storms came your way, you danced, not because you did not see the severity, but that you knew storms always pass. That you lived, not because you have a point to prove, but that you owed it to yourself to make the most of the life you have.
The dreams will be achieved.
Life will sort itself out.
Financial freedom will come.
Love will find you.
It is in accepting that things happen differently for each and every one of us, you will find freedom. Everyone has a life that will not reflect another’s, your time to find love will be different. Your breakthrough in your job will come when you are ready. Your business will finally lift off and you will catch a break.
All these things will come, you just need to know that you are right where you need to be. You are right who you need to be at this present moment. Accept it and cherish yourself.
You will grow into who you need to be in your own time. Find your pace, love yourself and work for what you believe in, just don’t forget to live while you are at it. Find what living means for you and cherish it, because you only have one life. Live it!
With a tad bit of crazy
Love Mavis
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