New Year's Ramblings

Random ramblings...LOL...I am all about them...this time of year always brings them out of me.

To describe my life right now…I am not sure what to say. On one hand I am happy but on another hand…everything is so uncertain. I think this is normal. Truly, for everyone, life is uncertain...and why it stands out for me is because I have been forced to acknowledge the fact that things are uncertain...my lack of control in this journey of life has been thrown in my face over the past year. But that is OK.

This new year what I am striving to do is be…someone who looks everyone in the eye. Someone who sees the worth of all the people I meet. Someone who can see the beauty in each moment. Someone who can find laughter in the every day. Someone who can enjoy where I am…not wanting to fast forward the moment but rather reveling in the entire moment and giving my whole self to the moment. Someone who will be open to taking risks…even if it means opening myself up to the possibility of feeling stupid, scared, or embarrassed…and even if it means opening myself up to being hurt. Someone who lives by the motto that it's better to regret what I did do then what I didn't do.

I want to be a better person.

All we have is this moment…right now. I want to be someone who lives in the truth of that.

"I don't want to forget the present is a gift...And I don't want to take for granted the time you may have here with me...Cause Lord only knows another day is not really guaranteed..." (Alicia Keys -- Like You'll Never See me Again -- Album: As I am)

Living in the truth of that does not mean there will not be hard times or rough times…for me, I will accept those times but I will not let them last long…maybe a few minutes…maybe an hour…but any longer and I will have to end it because it is a waste of my time. Life is too short to be melancholy for too long. Things will go wrong and things will not always go according to the plans...I think I have learned to roll with the punches. There is required a certain level of letting go of what little control we think we have to be able to roll with what life throws at us.

Choose to live. Choose to love. Choose to laugh. Choose to be alive. Choose to risk.

Here is a secret I want to share...there are four precepts to life...this is not all there is to life but we all need these in our life as a kind of base...:

Live well – Love deeply – Laugh often – Pray daily

"Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed."

Hmmm...the more I think and reflect...the more I realize I don't know a whole lot. LOL

Hugs,
Liz