I had a conversation today that reminded me how important it is to take stock of your life and always remember what is important to you deep down inside. We all have a lot of different things we care about in the material world, but what is your primary aim in terms of the first and last thing you care about? What your soul is looking for? What makes you truly joyful? Is it a relationship with the divine? With God? Is it something else that humbles you and reminds you that the Universe spins without any assistance from you? Perhaps it's something that reminds you of this, and connects you to this idea and the wisdom that is already inside of you? And then secondarily, what is your aim? Perhaps it is fulfilling what your purpose in life is, what your dream career is, or building on your relationship with your children or your spouse?
Whatever it is, try to sit for a few minutes, and breathe into it. This helps to humble you and ground you, when the pressures of everything around you seem to be swirling and leave you swirling with them. When you are caught up in everyone else's insta feed or you are caught up in what the other parents are saying they are doing for their kids and so you feel like if you don't do those things too, you are somehow failing. Are you? Are you really failing? Or is it maybe that you don't really think all of those things are the most important things in the world, and that really, there's something bigger. Maybe, it's that we should try to sit, and breathe, and see that the Universe is bigger and will keep spinning, and we can and should instead try to do our little part. Which may just mean being kind, and smiling at a stranger who is looking sad, or playing bubbles in the backyard and letting our kids run barefoot in the grass - so they too can connect. So they too can enjoy the beauty that the world has to offer. Before it's too late, and they too get lost in the pressures that everyone puts on them. Let them be little for a while, before they too grow up and have their own kids and ask these same questions.
And breathe - it's OK. Not everything is a race to perfection. Sometimes we forget to see the beauty around us and the innocence of our little precious kids. This time will go too fast, and only this moment that you are in is promised.