“The goal is to build a life you don’t need to escape from.  Where peace isn’t something you chase but something you live everyday,” Daniel Chidiac.  When we have a firm foundation settled in self-awareness, value, and purpose, the things we need to stay on that trajectory find their way to us.  The traditional way of life is so deeply engrained in all of us that we feel there is no other way.  We have made the people who follow their calling seem the anomaly while the rest of us simply need to accept that we are cogs in the wheel of someone else’s vision.  Until we learn to alter that mindset, that’s exactly what we will continue to live and perpetuate.  We know there are other options and other ways to live because we have seen it done.  We’ve seen people create something out of nothing and march to the beat of their own drum but for most of us, we’ve viewed that as the exception, not the rule.  We’ve bought into the idea that we can’t do what we want no matter how much we profess freedom.  Sure, the type of freedom we have is a bit challenging because we are taught that it’s all on us—we can have whatever we want but we have to work for all of it.  They don’t profess the idea that if we put in the energy and effort toward what we want that what we need will be drawn to us.

As we pull in the elements of what we want, we begin to understand that more and more opportunities open.  We don’t have to live life in the ordinary way.  And it doesn’t have to be hard.  In fact, it’s quite the opposite.  When we are on an authentically aligned track consistent with what we believe in and our vision, the world around us tends to adapt and provide what we need consistent with that goal and vision.  We are communal, creative beings and that means we are given complementary talents to help each other create new things.  Some of those efforts may seem to clash with each other as we fight over whose vision gets created first or in what way. That’s all ego because we were trained that being right was more important than doing what was right.  But that is a habit that can be altered as we learn that the skills we have were meant to help each other, not create an essence of power—power over people and things is fleeting.  Power over ourselves and our creation is true mastery. That’s when life really shows us the possibilities. 

There is so much beauty that exists in this world and nearly endless potential to create more.  We don’t have to repeat the same things day after day and say that’s what we are resigned to do.  We are meant to do what we are called to do and if we are in tune enough, that message is loud and clear.  I’ve said it a million times: we were each given a vision and a purpose for a reason.  We have the talents and ideas we have for a reason and we are foolish if we think we have to perpetuate the systems put in place designed to control us and make us conform, the systems put in place of eras long since gone.  There’s a reason it feels like we are trying to escape every day, why we WANT to escape every day.  There’s a reason we give into the distraction we feel all the time—because we know that what we do isn’t fulfilling us.  When we manage to follow those goals, the life we want isn’t a dream, it’s a reality and that is certainly something we don’t want (or need) to escape from.  Life is best lived in reality and in the present, that is where peace is, following purpose is where peace is.  Living the life we are meant to have is peaceful.