![]() When I falter, I remind myself of how happy I am to have the power of choice, to be able to do what I love so much of the time, and to belong to a network of people who trust and love me to be me, no matter what choices (or even mistakes) I’m making…… It’s exhilarating to take risks and feel the buzzing, growing vitality of being alive and creating our own life stories. It’s so much more exciting and fulfilling to question, to think, to decide what we honestly want and plot our own route to achieve it. Sometimes we may weaken a little bit and wish we could be like everybody else…playing it safe!!!īeing like everyone else? We cannot convince ourselves to be. It takes courage and self-respect, and sometimes it will sting in spite of ourselves. Therein lies the dark side to living a life outside the normal boundaries. The conventional advice on this subject is that we shouldn’t care what people think, but sometimes we are going to care, no matter how hard we try to deny it. Even when we do succeed, people will try to belittle what we have accomplished. Sometimes we’ll fail spectacularly, and our failures will be all the more visible because we were trying something unusual - something people didn’t think we should be trying, or something people assumed we couldn’t make work. Not only that, but we’ll be making our own road maps as we go, which can be a solitary and scary endeavor. If we make nonconformist decisions or hold nontraditional ideas, we’re going to catch a certain amount of heat, whatever our age. ![]() This was decisions leading me to a more authentic me… Selling my house, “big” car, no tv, giving away tons of clothes and stuff etc etc made people think I was “crazy”. The sad truth is, sometimes people are judgmental. It’s good to ask questions and reach your own conclusions, because what if circumstances have changed and conventional wisdom is just flat-out wrong? It’s good to take stock and figure out what will make you the happiest, even if the answer is unique and makes your friends and acquaintances shake their heads. If there’s one thing life has taught me, it’s that you can never predict how it’s going to turn out or what opportunities may rise unexpectedly. Life and love flashes just in front of you….There are no sure paths. Declining to do that, I asked if I could post it, which I was allowed as long as the author remained anonymous. A friend of mine wrote this, which I encouraged to share with others, as it, at least for me holds, so much perspective that it would simply be a shame not to share that.
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