Trust. Wishes. Gratitude.
Life is listening.
I call it this because I think it takes me a week to adjust to the idea that I am getting older. Now, I will be entering a higher number higher on forms, documents, etc. It is kind of like a date change after new years but a lot more personal. My reaction to both events is similar. I make a mistake while writing my age and think, “Wait, how old am I now?” Next, I enter denial mode and then shock before the acceptance sets in, which lasts till the next year.
Growing old is a privilege, and every year I sit and meditate to reflect on the past birth year cycle. Then the birthday cake comes along; I close my eyes and blow out the candle for that magical birthday wish that I hope the Gods will grant because I have made it through another year.
But that’s just it, it is not a milestone to celebrate, and you get a gift for survival. Although, I admit that it feels that way sometimes (wow, I made it through this year. wait, where are my wish from the last few years?). It is a gift to live each day.
A birthday is the birth and celebration of life, and your life is a miracle. Look at where you are.
You have been born entirely into a family with all its ups and downs to help shape the person you are becoming, whether it is to overcome obstacles and grow or to meet challenges head-on and push you to the brink of life. Whatever the case may be, life has conspired to create the perfect course for your soul to experience.
Now sometimes I think, “why would I want this lesson or experience in my life? I didn’t ask for this”
But if hindsight is 20/20 and you look back on your life, look at the choices made and the people you have met to get you here. Did you meet someone you thought was ‘the one’ only to be disappointed, but that meeting perhaps introduced you to your new best friend?
Did you make choices in your career, thinking this is just a temporary job to find a new passion from it?
Who are the people in your life now?
What were the steps that brought them to you?
Life is full of twists and turns, and destiny seldom travels in a straight line. If you find yourself forcing a decision or action in your life, you might find yourself fighting an uphill battle. But if you let go of the reigns a little and trust a bit in the universal energy of life, you might find yourself where you always wanted to be.
But HOW you got there was nowhere near where you thought the path would take you. Because there are a saying… ‘man plans, and God laughs.’ God/life/the universe is not laughing at you, being a bully not to give you what you want, but in the exceptional picture of life, there are millions of paths to get to your desired wish. But controlling how and when your desired outcome happens might be setting you back. You might not meet the future best friend you were supposed to meet. You might not have discovered your new passion when you are fixated in getting what you want WHEN, and HOW you want it. This state could skew your path and delay any wishes you make. Because you are controlling how life happens for you, you are taking the magic and miracles of possibilities away.
Make a wish and let it go. Trust life to conspire to make your request come true. It might not happen when you want it to nor the way you expected it, but the essence of the wish will happen. Trust.
Blow out those birthday candles.
Life is listening.
