What matters most to me is to do my best to honour this precious gift of life that I was given. Because when I feel, I am alive. I cry super easily! I let myself be touched by joy, by sadness. It’s a conscious choice I make. They are moments of grace and connection to me. Because in those moments, I connect to myself and others, I experience our exquisite humanness. Even those emotions that I don’t like, such as guilt or shame. I try and remind myself that they are part of my human experience, that’s all. If I didn’t feel these things, I’d just be a table. I don’t want to be a table.
It’s vital for me to notice the wonder of the world around me, the people around me and of course, myself. I think two attitudes that are sorely lacking in our modern world and can make a HUGE difference to your quality of life is curiosity and wonder. I think that we can cultivate them and bring them to the smallest and most mundane things in our lives too…