Let me paint a scenario for you... You've with a
group of friends, well they're acquaintances really, you like them,
they're fun to be with and chat to, but the only time you socialise with
them is in the pub or Christmas and New Year. Someone asks you what you do for a living or asks you about where your son goes to school, and then the fun begins. It's at moments
like this that I realise that my family and I are really not on the same
page as everyone else, in fact if we're reading the same book I'd be
very surprised. Then I look at
what I've done in my life, the challenges I have faced and I realise
that most people never even scratch the surface when it comes to life.
They judge their lives by those of celebrities and what the television tells them is the perfect life . At the grand old
age of 23, I was a Mum of two with a partner who went out before the
children were up and only came home if they were in bed. I spent my
evenings alone and sad. I watched the glamorous lives of the rich and
famous on t.v. and I agonised with all the soap opera characters. But
even at that tender age I realised that it wasn't what life was all
about. One evening when
putting my children to bed a little later than usual I realised that if I
read them a story I would miss the soap I was following, it pulled me
up short. From that moment on I vowed that my children would come first,
so the next day I cancelled our cable package and got rid of the t.v. To my joy and
amazement I spent my evening listening to the radio, knitting, creating
and chilling out. I went to bed and slept proper sleep instead of lying
awake with an overactive brain. My life has sort
of followed this line. If something is conventional, I don't dismiss it
outright but I do assess it carefully to see what impact it will have on
my family and my soul. Hence teaching Yoga, it fills me with joy, where as most 9-5 work I have done has drained me of any kind of fulfilment. My son being home
schooled, much to the disgust of friends and family is another thing.
We tried the conventional route, it didn't work for us. My child thrives
being home educated, he is chatty, outgoing, funny, articulate. Isn't it funny
how is you veer from convention your life becomes so much more enriched.
My husband and I often chat about various people we know and how
unhappy or unhealthy they are, most of the time it's due to them
desperately struggling to fit in, be conventional, be successful. But
all those measures are set by the invisible society. The only true way
to be happy n this life and succeed at what you do is to not be on the
same page, not even be in the same book, it's to write your own book. We're doing it,
it's scary and exhilarating, but by god it'll be worth it just to feel
happy with the choices I know are truly mine :) Write your post here. |
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