Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde
I’m a life coach, writer, a gardener, photographer of nature, wanderer, free-spirit, and lover of life but I wasn’t always living this way because as most adults we were often told to do or be something at a younger age that looked more responsible or to make others proud. It felt like we were suppose to get this particular job or that education, get married, have children…you guessed it, fill in the blank. So after many years, I got tired of the what I was suppose to, the shoulds, and began to consider myself first because after all, wasn’t it my life, after-all ? Isn’t that all we have here on this plane, in any given moment the gift of life until we don’t. We came into the world alone in this very body and will die in the same body, alone, someday. Of the ones left behind, no one will accompany us on our transition to the next phase, it will just be you, physically. Therefore, part of becoming more comfortable with death, the next transition, it’s imperative to work backwards (from what our end date may become) work back asking, am I fully living – to live as if we knew we were dying. A great song by Tim McGraw, “Live Like You Were Dying.”
I think it’s important we actually celebrate This amazing gift by talking about and embracing, even the hard parts and I mean the darkest moments, and stop trying to avoid by keeping busy, pushing away, or pretending that this life continues forever, we never know the number of days left, so let’s talk about how you are living it! Are you happy, fulfilled, missing something, or are you trying to escape, what may you find yourself avoiding? For me, after a couple of huge wake-up calls, and I mean near death, it was imperative I didn’t look back without first asking, who am I, what have I done and didn’t do, were things left undone, and was I feeling personal gratification, joy, growth, in whatever I was doing or was the barometer for how I was living coming from someone else’s or an institutions thoughts and expectations about how I should live? These were some of the questions and thoughts that led me down a very soulful path ultimately steering me in a direction I hadn’t seen coming until it just made perfect sense – becoming a certified life coach. I’m honored you came to visit my website. I look forward to possibly working together!
By Magdalena Andrasevits
