Life is full of milestones. I have reached one recently in my journey that only enabled me to glimpse a certain level contentment, in temporary spurts in the past.
When I look back at all of my lifelong lessons , I see a recurring theme that always involves needing to learn what I don’t HAVE TO do. I don’t have to respond, I don’t need to explain, I don’t need to justify, I don’t need an excuse, I don’t have to engage, I don’t have to agree, I don’t have to do as others do.
And this one was the hardest of all to let go of. I don’t have to be understood !!
It’s to be OK to just be uniquely me. To live, love, and carry on in a way that brings me personal peace and contentment.
At this stage of my life I am not interested in telling others how they should live, think, feel or believe. I am also not interested in being told the same.
I am only interested in spending these years surrounding myself with the simple pleasures, and people that make me feel Happy and at peace with myself and my creator. What others do is not my concern.
I am 68 years old. I am not going to change the world to make it a better place at this stage of my life.
But I can leave my mark on this world in a positive way, one smile at a time, one hug, one act of kindness, one song, one poem, one word of encouragement.
And I am OK, being uniquely and magically me.
BY:JLE February 27, 2023