Live your best life

I used to be afraid of feeling fear, anxiety, regret, pain, disappointment.   Now, I am only afraid of feeling nothing at all.  What I want now is to be fully alive, to feel it all, knowing I am strong enough to grow through it. I've had my  a wakening: the realization that I am responsible for my own life.  I will not wait until I am at the end of my life before I begin to live with the purpose of fulfilling my deepest desires. I will not let the fear of uncertainty and change prevent me from pursuing my dreams.  I refuse to walk through my days like a zombie.   Some people die at 30 but are not buried until they are 75. These people are dead inside, "The Walking Dead". They've given up. They've chosen to settle and minimize feeling. The problem is, when you numb yourself to difficult emotions, you also numb yourself to beautiful ones. Life is complicated, beautiful, challenging, rewarding and it should be the amazing adventure you've always dreamed...

If you don’t transform from your pain then it was for nothing. The failures, the mistakes, the disasters, the shame and the pain all shape your life, but only if you participate in turning the suffering into something good. Ask yourself: How can I grow from this?  What is this here to teach me?  What did I do to make this happen? Don't just go through it, grow through it. And be kind to yourself. In retrospect, it can be easy to beat yourself up over a mistake or a failure. It is much harder to say, "I did the best I could, with what I knew at the time. I will learn and grow from this. Everything I go through gets me closer to where I need to be. In this moment, I am exactly where I need to be and I am savouring the eff out of it!" It's harder, but say it and believe it anyway! And have faith in what's to come.