Count Your Blessings -LYF 4U
- Maree Mcmanaway
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
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Life is too short to be anything but your best version of happy.
A while back I was sitting in the day lounge of the rest home where my mum (dementia took her) spent her last couple of years on one side, and a delightful resident lady on the other.
Over our cuppa we began to chat; I asked her what was life before she lived in Resthome care like for her?
She replied, It was over in a flash;
One minute I was happily raising our family on a sheep farm, helping in the sheds, working alongside my darling husband; the next minute our children had grown and left the country life for the city to find their own way.
Then of course there was the war to live through. I listened as a silence passed while she recalled that time.
My darling then had a stroke and died. she said sadly...and before I knew it, I became overnight frail, and so here I am...spoken in one flippant sentence.
She reminded me; and said" One day your life will flash before your eyes". I couldn't help but see her eyes filled with tears, mixed in love,joy, sadness and wisdom all rolled into one, when she said that.
It stuck.
It reminded me how quickly time does pass and how right this elegant lady was...also just how much knowledge and opportunity for connection I value in our wise older generation.
MAREE'S MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGE
April (the Easter Egg) as a symbol- is a reminder that life's transformations are inevitable and still beautiful.
Of course now, in today's times, with the constant wars—viral, virtual, environmental, or cyber—we all have our share to "live through."
Yet even with worries as part of your life story, we can still ensure life is worth enjoying.
Some may say a bucket list is not worth having.
I would say it's more vital than ever... on the fact that you aint gonna live forever , you might as well do whatever you enjoy (within reason) and to be as happy as you can while you do live!
I know it's not easy, yet TRY to live as if ALL days matter, even the prickly ones..
Surrender that which you cannot change
Expand that which you can.
Acknowledge and accept, they are not all great days, so let go on those days even more so.
Enjoy what you enjoy, even the little seemingly small, everyday things, like a meal with family, the extra days off, time to reflect religiously, or completing a few home chores. They are worthy of pleasure.
Keep a bucket list;
Practice going with the flow of this time because one minute, one day, one year it will be over..in a flash..dont waste a second in sadness any longer than you have too. ok.
Happiness is in your head and hands!
We are still blessed beyond this.
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Walking with you all the way x
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