Dec 23/16
I feel so grateful that I have been able to do some traveling. As I reflect today, I am currently on a beautiful island for over a week now. It has been enough time to meet a lot of people and see folks live their local life. The laid back pace of this experience has caused me to question why - in general - the North American culture of environment of such high and rapid expectations we place on ourselves. This pattern replicates itself from the workplace to our personal life expectations.
Yes of course a strong structure does provide us to live a good quality of life. In fact most of North America lives a life that is better than the life of past kings and queens of centuries past. However perhaps at the cost of us truly living and being able to feel our life. The place I am at has only one major road with no traffic lights and one traffic circle. So in our traditional view we might question how does that work? It should not be possible for traffic to flow? We use traffic controls to prevent accidents and increase flow of traffic - yet how come herethere are not any accidents while I was there and traffic flow was very efficient. Perhaps you might be thinking there was low levels of traffic, which was not the case. There was a great deal of mixed traffic from people walking to large trucks - all using only one road.
It all works and flows - you can feel the traffic around you - it is like because the lack of traffic control specific rules and because of this absence it all seems to work. There seems to be a perfect balance that just seems to be there and living. The feeling of being rushed does not seem to exist.
Then my thoughts turned to the tortoise and the hare story. As I thought of that story as two different choices of how we could live our life on our quest of our life. At the end - it will be no rush at all - when you look back on your life - will the quest be one filled full of memories and laughter? or one of a rush from check point to another?
So the importance of choices come to mind - based on the life style you would like to have. Choose a location and pace that aligns up for what you want. Ask yourself what do you truly want in your life in regards to the pace and challenges. The way we are currently living in North America we need all different type of people providing the value in all the different roles. The point is your happiness and perhaps by using this type of concepts you will be able to make clear choices of what you need to do. In high school we are requested to make choices that will impact the rest of our life and maybe some of us made a decision that required more information at the time. Now that you have been the gift of time and you still have time available to use tools like these to make a change in your life. By doing this - it will be another key to your foundation of providing you the happiness you deserve in your life.
Like the traffic flowing perfectly with no traffic controls on this island - your life as well will flow perfectly. It will also allow you to feel on your quests and experience the great adventures of your life. Each day will begin a new - with abundant experiences that you will never guess what is possible and yet they are.
Once you start making choices for you - you will be amazed to have the feeling of flow and how easy life will become.
Then it is up to you to start enjoying your experience.
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