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WHAT LIFE IS REALLY ALL ABOUT

by Dori Bushee


I have been thinking about this one for a very long time, and I am sure most of you have done the same thing, but one day you wake up and its as if the answer is right there at your finger tips, and you wonder why it is you never figured it out before, and once you do figure you out, you realize how very uncomplicated life really is.

We really do try too hard in our lives, searching for explanations to everything, when in reality there isn't always an answer for everything, and the sooner we accept that, the sooner our lives will become less complicated as well.

If we all could just take life one day at a time and not try to look so far into the future, that we forget to live each day as it comes, that would be a very good place to start, and there would be less disappointment when things didn't go as we had planned as well.

Perhaps if we just would stop and look into our hearts, and say the things that we wanted to say without fear of repercussions from those around us, we could move forward and not keep clinging to a past, that while it has made us who we are, can also be damaging to us at times.

We are who we are because of how we were brought up, and how we responded to that by either letting it become the goals we now set for ourselves, or by learning from the mistakes that were made and moving on with this knowledge, to become a better person because of it.

So many times we try to convince ourselves that we want what we can't have, while we seem to ignore the importance of all the good we already have in our lives, and this only can leave us dissatisfied and not very happy in the end.

Life is about learning, and putting what we learn to good use, and making the best of a good or a bad situation, and sharing what we have learned with others, in the hope we can help bring them some kind of peace and serenity in their own lives.

Once we accept who we are, and understand our possibilities as well as our limitations, we can finally live a life that will be as rewarding as we could have dreamed, and we will be spending less time procrastinating about what to do next.

My mother always use to tell me, "Life is what you make of it", and her words still stick with me today, and although there are times that I myself even may cave into defeat, I remember her words once again, and I resolve to try to live by them.

 


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