Find your wild ways: opening up to a limitless life
‘I really hope you are having a good life.’
‘A full one. If nothing else.’
I think we often forget our limitlessness. In this world that is so eager to put us in a box, that pushes us to live a sensible and profitable life, good life, I think we often forget that we are the creators, rule makers, gatekeepers, saviours and lovers of our own lives.
It is a somewhat scary, life-altering, ground-shaking realisation that there are no other rules than the ones we put into place. Our lives are shaped and sculpted by the lines and forms we give to it. And too often we forget that we are living, breathing, growing, evolving forces of nature. Multitudes that cannot be contained.
This illusion of borders is a relief, a safe framework into which it is easy and effortless to build a life. Build a world and settle into it. Live safely cocooned with clear definitions of who you are, how you are and what you do. Live in it even when the air starts to feel stuffy and there is not enough room to contain the life you hold. Even when you start to question who you are and why you are alive.
We escape to daydreams, we find distractions, we try to contain and numb our feelings - those brilliant messengers that try to let us know it is time to change - but somehow there is no escaping the fact that we feel like we are not living enough. Doing enough. Being enough.
Unsatisfied in our daily lives we go on holidays, seek out adventures, escape into faraway wonders – once-in-a-lifetime experiences – and cling to these memories when we return to our daily life. Cling on to them as a lifeline, as a promise of something better to come once we have fulfilled our duties, lived out the life we planned, the path we set out on years ago.
And we keep telling ourselves; This is how it is, it is the norm, a part of life. It is what everyone else does. Daily life is what it is, why should my life be any different? I should be happy with my lot and not ask for more.
But, we cannot help to wonder; What if this is not the only truth? What if there is another path? A freer, more fulfilling – more alive way of life?
Because there is. There is another way. It is right here, at your fingertips.
You are alive to live
‘People do what they can do to get through life. You hold on to the good memories, anything that is any source of positivity.’
‘I have never thought of life as something to get through. More like something to experience. To feel. To live.’
We create the rules and limitations of our own lives, we are the ones in control of our every breath. Of our own truths. Of our lives.
Of this one human life that is fleeting and fragile, gone before we quite realise it had even begun. Yet it is here, alive and vibrant, ready and open and full of possibilities in each instant.
Here. We are alive here and now, alive to live past the limitations and rules we have obliged ourselves to. We are alive here to experience life.
The idea of letting go of the framework that keeps our life glued together feels insane. Unbecoming. Rootless. Reckless. Utterly crazy. Your mind wants something safe and secure to anchor to, some routine, rules, a safe haven in which to function, to survive.
But, you are so much more than your mind. So much more than the primal instincts trying to keep you alive. And, you have so much life in you to live true in this one short breath of existence. Make it count.
Make your life count.
Know that you are safe within yourself and open the gates to the wider world. Go find your wild ways. Let go of the rules and limitations. Speak your truth. Commit to yourself, to choosing your dreams every single day. Commit to choosing what feels like nourishment, to what makes you feel alive.
Live a full, fluid life trusting that there is always a path to follow. Set joy, passion and inspiration as your true north. Make your heart your compass. Your intuition your guide. Trust in the life you so brightly carry within you. And, know that it is never too late to start anew. It is never too late to live.
Live. Live. Run like wildfire towards your wildest dreams and watch how you light up the world in your wake – how by being alive you create life.
Break the rules. Break your own rules. Live your one life as beautifully, magnificently, bravely and fully alive as humanly possible. Because you shining light, your life deserves to be lived – seen – heard – experienced to the fullest.
Love,
Ida