WE have weighed the influences of one’s willingness to really appreciate life, in embracing and savouring it by commanding the joys life has to offer. The emotional yearning of one’s soul to live a passionate life.
Why is “life” so hard to explain? Because life is as different for each one of us as we are different from each other. So life is just as much the person you are as it is to someone else.
How do we live with life? How do we treat ourselves? How do we care for ourselves? How do we protect ourselves and do we provide the same degree of responsibilities to ourselves as we do to other things that are worthy in our lives?
Your life is just that, it is the sum of you. Your past experiences, your desires, your successes and your failures, this is what life is, it is you. It does not deal us just a hand of cards...it deals us a winning hand each time called ‘opportunities’. How we manage what is given (dealt) to us and what we do with it is what shapes our lives.
Life is you and only you can shape what you are by the choices you embrace each day.
People ask me for the easiest way they can change their lives. My advice to them is to remember what choices they are embracing that may keep what they don’t desire now, as well as what they do.
Many times we continue to embrace choices we make that may not serve our needs today, but we continue to embrace (protect) such choices and thus keep them in our lives. The greatest understanding of life is to trust that everything in our life, as we know it, was shaped one choice at a time. Our choices today are influenced by the choices we embraced in the past, a stepping-stone in life.
How much do you really appreciate yourself and your life? This is the real question that only you can answer.
When you reach a point of understanding about who you are, you will have looked back upon your past and appreciate where and how far you have come. There, within, is the key to living your life with passion.
There are three types of people — those who get through life, those who live life, and those who create their life.
The latter understands that “when you live your life with passion, you’ll never betray your soul.”
My mentor once shared with me the means of knowing truthfully when one is managing life’s opportunities well. They are those who do not need to blow their own horns, so to speak, everyone does it for them. Why?
When you are skillfully managing the opportunities that life promises you each moment in life, the “example” you leave behind will be received by those who you come into contact and hopefully benefit from it. When someone asks me how passion really affects one’s life, I have to refer to my comments above. When you manage well what gifts life “gives” you daily (something to expand your knowledge, to learn), you become a partner with life in giving as you also have received knowledge.
To really enjoy life is when living becomes an experience and with each heartbeat you are able to taste life’s fine textures of colours and scents. You will then appreciate that you are responsible for the one gift you give more than any one thing in life, and that is the example we leave for others. The greatest gift you will give is an example of the art of appreciating every opportunity to grow with life. It is allowing yourself to grow, to forgive yourself, to honour your accomplishments and to enjoy life more each day.
Those who appreciate life and leave the gift of a positive example for others know they are doing well by seeing their examples lived on and being passed on to others. As we do not, nor can we create our own breath, it is a gift from life. If we are to be a partner with life, then we must embrace the appreciation of managing what we give each step in life, the example we leave in the sands of time.
The examples we leave in life are footprints in the sands of time for others to follow.
