Living My Best Life

Every time I travel, I get lots of messages & comments that I am “living my best life.” I am, but not for the reasons perceived by others. Now, I really do LOVE to travel (& I just really started doing it over the past few years), & I love to share my experiences so that people who (think) they can’t or won’t go anywhere may be inspired to go for it! Or even just see the world in a different way, if they truly don’t desire or are physically unable to travel. But let’s not get it twisted. Getting on a plane & going on a trip does not automatically equal living your best life! While I was living in China, I had friends tell me all the time “wow you’re really living!” And I’m looking at them like, “And you are too!!”. I have loved ones who get up every morning with the best intentions towards educating & motivating the minds of our youth! Underpaid & overworked yet STILL with the best intentions towards our babies. Friends who are taking care of ill or disabled loved ones, friends who are ill or disabled themselves yet STILL smile, & love, & encourage themselves & others. Parents who get to look in the eyes of their children everyday & know a bit of themselves will live on in the world. Does it get any BETTER than that??
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Society tells us that we have to be doing some big or grand thing in order to be truly ‘living.’ And social media feeds the frenzy (the plight of being a millennial & having access to tmi.) But that’s bullshit. & an illusion. I think that living your best life doesn’t just mean living on your own terms, however YOU wanna live (cus some people Want to live cruelly & selfishly &that ain’t it!) but it’s also about choosing love over fear, daily. Being kind, being present, & finding some joy in the day every day! Accomplishing goals & dreams is awesome, but how do you handle yourself in the day to day along the way? On the days when all I do for the day is pray, get out of bed, go to work, eat a good meal, & maybe offer a kind word to someone, Im still living my best life! Because that’s the BEST I can do with my LIFE at the moment.🤷🏾‍♀️
I’m grateful for it all! And it’s all LIFE! Let’s do our best to keep on living it!! EVERYDAY! 🙌🏾❤️✨
#reminders