Daily life interferes all the time with my aspirations, even little daily goals, whatever they are.
You see I’ve had this vision since I was a small child that I would be rich and famous and everyone would love me, giving me the adulation I was due.
It hasn’t happened yet.
I might have been able to get myself there but I got distracted by daily life.
All the things that make up daily life on any day, from doing the goddamned laundry to seeing the sunrise over the Himalaya, which is something worth seeing I can assure you.
Anyway, besides visiting the Himalaya, I have repeatedly become distracted by how interesting life is and I forget what it was I thought I wanted.
This has gone on forever and I now find myself reaching pensionable age and have had an extremely interesting life, but have still not reached the aspirations I had as a small child. Yet being there, as a little new being in the world and wanting to show off what I can do feels like it happened barely five minutes ago.
I’m not sure who’s life I have been living, I assume it’s mine, I have no other recollections though memories pop up in sharp relief out of the general vague field of mind from time to time. I’m sure they are mine.
I am now at the stage that I am better at telling stories rather than creating new experiences. I must say I have had some amazing experiences, like visiting the Himalaya and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. I’ve really packed it in.
Even thinking about what stories to tell is an exciting new adventure.
It’s also tricky, a crossroads, a point in the trail. Should I go left here or right? Which tale starts the whole cascade. I feel it boils down to questions. What have I learned that I want to give away to you today, or better said. What would I like you to take with you on your journeys, your travels. What do I absolutely want to say before I die? Or, what are the lessons learned that cannot be lost.
Lesson one is obviously, enjoy daily life. Every day we see that what we do now is all there is. Today is all that is actually real, this day you are living right now, this thing I am doing now, this action you are performing now, the air we are breathing today. This immediate energised moment that is this life.
It’s all today. Enjoy today in any and every way you can.
Once again enjoy all of today.
Lizzy Agatha 