LIVING YOUR LIFE
At birth, we open our eyes and scream.
We grow up.
We don’t have ‘it’, so we fake it.
Once we have ‘it’, we either hide it or show it off.
We become temporarily insane and fall in love.
We gradually lose it, as time goes by.
We sleepwalk through life.
We do stupid things, like losing our shirt.
We lose our looks and don’t take a look in the mirror anymore.
We lose our strength.
We think life is not fair.
We fall into the trap of blaming, complaining and resenting.
We pray a lot.
We lose our mind.
And then we turn to dust.
Shouldn’t we have our life cycle backwards? Why not die first, get it out of the way? And living your life from being frail to becoming strong? And finally, becoming a little baby and getting back into the womb. Nice thought.
But we all leave our footprint, however small! Some people seem luckier than others and have learned how to become a survivor rather than a victim. Some people are determined to find a way of moving forward and take back control of their life. Life is not what happens to you. Tell yourself and others: ‘let’s not go there’. Ever feel like you can’t take it anymore? Great! That’s normal! That’s the perfect time to break with your past and to get off auto-pilot. Taking personal responsibility for your own fate is a giant leap toward putting an end to your present situation. You may have to go for a long walk on your own in order to work through a lot of things. Remember, you are about to become a different person and you have to acquire the right mindset.
Life can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Changing your attitude, changes the way you think and feel. Taking action at times, when you are fearful, should ultimately achieve incredible results. Living up to the challenge of a seemingly impossible task, is the most thrilling experience of all. It’s a question of being driven, no matter what, far beyond any rational expectation. People with the most unlikely backgrounds have reached unthinkable heights in life. Brains and talent won’t guarantee success, only persistence does. That’s a fact.
Are you ready to leave the problems of your past behind? Move on! You deserve to be happy, because living your life, the way it is destined to (‘ this is me!’), will finally fulfill your dreams. Changing your perspective of present circumstances may often be enough to get things moving in the right direction. Always visualize the desired result first and then the necessary energy will be unleashed to make things happen.
RICK SCHMULL
May 20th, 2015
WESTCLIFF-On-SEA, Essex, U.K.
