My Mom It is right here, right now in this very moment that you are living your life. While it can be busy, demanding, stressful and even agonizing at times you have in every moment the opportunity to appreciate life in great ways. A few years back when my my 92 year old mom had just died I was thrown into the midst of the great pain of dealing with the separation of connection that happens when someone you love dies. While this is one of the most awful moments you can experience in your life, there is also lots that the experience can teach us, one of the things that I had begun to notice was how alive I actually was.
It seemed a great paradox to me to be thinking about that but here I was alive, feeling all of this pain from the loss and trying to make sense of a new normal in a world without my mom in it. I felt more depth and more connection to the meaning of life than I had in a very long time. My awareness increased substantially of what being fully present in a moment can mean and that my friends, is a huge aspect of what living life creatively means. You embrace it all, the good, the joyful and the painful. Your life may never be perfect but it is perfect in that moment and you will be able to choose what to do with that joy, that pain, that curiosity and move forward or stay stuck. Me, I like forward motion.
It seemed a great paradox to me to be thinking about that but here I was alive, feeling all of this pain from the loss and trying to make sense of a new normal in a world without my mom in it. I felt more depth and more connection to the meaning of life than I had in a very long time. My awareness increased substantially of what being fully present in a moment can mean and that my friends, is a huge aspect of what living life creatively means. You embrace it all, the good, the joyful and the painful. Your life may never be perfect but it is perfect in that moment and you will be able to choose what to do with that joy, that pain, that curiosity and move forward or stay stuck. Me, I like forward motion.
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