“Not everyone wants material things.  Some just want a weirdo to go on adventures with, someone to laugh with, drive the backroads, watch sunsets, enjoy actual dates, and appreciate the simple things in life,” Daniel Chidiac.  Life is all about appreciation and joy.  We’ve all heard sayings like, ‘We’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time,’ and there is a certain truth to that.  It isn’t about what we acquire and at times it isn’t even about what we accomplish—it’s about the experience of life.  Today happened to be a “Monday Mental Reset Day” for me and from all the decks I work with the common theme was Joy.  The world becomes a reflection of how we think and feel and if we focus on the key things that bring us joy, most of us find that it isn’t the things that bring joy, it’s the connection.  All the things described above can be boiled down to connection and how we find joy in connecting with the things we like to do as well as the people we like to have around us. 

Life is pretty simple at the end of the day.  We are here to follow our paths and to fulfill our purpose.  Along the way we have become distracted with things and conflicting/contradicting goals.  When we look at the things that matter (upcoming post on Monday) we find that not one of those things relates to anything man made beyond the people and talents involved.  The world is magical and we’ve become more concerned with an image that we present to the world that we’ve forgotten who we are at our core: a communal animal with capacity for great creativity and expansion.  The world convinced us there was no room for that and we needed to fight for our place at the table.  Society wanted us to believe there was only room for one when the reality is we were each given our own table with its own menu tailored to our needs and purpose. We have everything we need available to us through the grace of this world—why we ever believed it wasn’t enough is beyond me.

If something calls to you, I encourage you to listen.  Hear what it is and hear the need behind it.  Hear what you are meant to do with that.  If people never heeded their call, we’d never see the variety of life we have out there.  Everyone knows it’s possible, just not everyone is able to dive in and embrace their path.  We were taught to seek comfort when we really needed to see comfort with our gifts. Trying to attain the same thing as all those before us is pointless because it gives us no personal satisfaction.  Living in our light, our authenticity, our creativity, expanding and sharing our purpose—THAT is what gives meaning to life.  It’s one thing to repeat the same day year after year and call it living.  It’s another thing to repeat the pattern someone else gave you.  And it is far another to break that pattern and live according to their calling.  The right people will always support us on our adventures, hear our ideas, and encourage development of self.  For those who relegate our creativity to crazy and who choose to go after the things that all fade away, authenticity is scary.  For the others it’s freedom.  You get to choose.