Wednesday, January 20, 2010

It's never too late to change your life

We all worry about our lives at some point, at least some of us stop for a minute to reflect over where we are right now and how it fits in with the dream we had years and years ago.

 

Do we live through our hearts following that dream? Or, do we walk the road that our parents told us? Are we being led by what society says is the better way? Questions like that are important to ask yourself regardless if it's about the big things in life like your job, your family, your hobbies or the very small things like "do I actually like to go to this restaurant every day?".


Some of us do this all day long because we feel we're in a place where we can't stand it but keep on going anyway, afraid of what we would loose if we did change, afraid of what the unknown may contain. Some of us stumble upon these feeling just once in while, when they seems to come knocking. Either way, it's important to take a step back, out of the bubble, to ponder what it is we actually want to do with our lives, you know, that precious gift we've been given, and are we following those paths or are we straying from them without even thinking about it.

 

Since life itself is meant to be lived, it doesn't matter when you stopped living, it doesn't matter at which point you start to live. You may have been working that boring job for 25 years and maybe you're 80 years old. You may think that it's too late to change as it is so little left, what's the point. But that is the point, since there is time left, however little, there is time to change. Because it not the destination (death) that matters, it's the journey (life).

 

Life is not fulfilled when you reach death, but in each and every day and moment that fills your heart, mind and soul.

 

To sum it up:

It is never too late to change your life to what your heart desires, because it is not the destination that brings fulfillment but the journey and as soon as you have started the journey you have already changed.

1 comment:

  1. "Life is not fulfilled when you reach death, but in each and every day and moment that fills your heart, mind and soul."

    That's a good one. It's also not fulfilled when you finally start earning more money or when your kids get a bit older or when you find your dream house. Life is now.

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