Your Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal
This life you are currently living is not a practice run, trial, or dress rehearsal. It is the ONE life you have. I think many of us, including myself, lose sight of this. We push things off until tomorrow. That trip we want to take will happen someday. We push our dreams to the side because one day we will pursue them. Our dreams never die and instead lay dormant in our souls, causing us to feel unfulfilled, like something is missing from our lives. We think there is more time, but that time is never guaranteed. It is a limited resource that will run out.
The question is: Are you living the life you want to live?
If you were to pass tomorrow, would people say that you lived your potential, or that you died full of potential? The graveyard is some of the richest land as it is where so many dreams die in hand – dreams that were dormant, ready to be awakened, and now are laid to rest. Why would you want to do that to yourself?
When we are birthed into this world, we are limitless. We haven’t been bombarded with what is or is not “realistic” or what we can or cannot do. We pick ourselves back up as many times as we fall, without hesitation. We believe we can do anything and dream endlessly and BIG! We question everything to feed our curiosity and don’t apologize for it. And then the outside world takes hold and shatters all of that. Somehow, we become disconnected from all that we were born with and start looking outward for what is already within.
We need to get back to that childlike wonder. We need to believe we can create our dreams. We need to try because failure doesn’t really matter. We need to keep picking ourselves back up and move forward because that’s what we learned to do – walk, move, one step in front of the other. Stop listening to what is out there and learn to be a better listener of what is inside your heart. Realize that time truly is running out. This is your one chance at life. How are you living it now? How do you want to live it? And what will you do to change it?
LYF 💖
REFLECTION: How are you currently living your life? Is it in alignment with how you want to live it? What are you willing to do to change it?