Being Alive Is A Fierce Responsibility

Breathing: it’s a privilege lost to many. Being alive is indeed a fierce responsibility. It can become a dull habit to defer dreams and aspirations to an imaginary someday. Someday is imaginary because it is promised to no one. Perhaps you cannot realize the fullness of all your deeply held aspirations in the present moment, but can you start? Can you take small steps toward the bigger thing?

A friend harbored a decades-long dream to live as an expatriate somewhere in Europe. Year after year, on her list for the coming months, she wrote these words: “Move to Europe.” But once she went through the “Remember and Do What Matters” program, she recognized that deferring her dream was no longer an option. She gave herself permission to begin to act on this long-held yearning. She began cobbling together a plan. She then acted on the plan with specificity, one thing at a time. Each step had obstacles and resistance which she faced and moved beyond.

Now? She’s writing about the expat life and the view out the window of her dwelling in a lovely fishing village in The Algarve of Portugal. That view is the vision she held for herself over years. Now it’s her everyday view.

When you assume a fierce responsibility toward the desires for your own life, you can begin to make them happen.

Will you be fierce in your responsibility to your own aliveness?

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