living beyond the ordinary How is it that trying things so good can lead to something so difficult? My heart has been broken, my body is tired, but I am still grateful for this week and this year. Great lives involve risk, and risk can lead to amazing adventures or deep heartache, but it is risk that gives us experience beyond the ordinary. To go beyond flat and just getting by is an investment of energy and interest, saying yes, getting involved.
To live a life worth living, one worth feeling, one where you grow involves RISK.
Life Lesson 35: Risk a life out of the ordinary.
Greatness comes from the doing, not just watching. Living comes from getting involved and participating, not from a sideline seat. Become the lead character in your own life and get off the couch. Get up and do something you have always wanted to try. I do not claim to be an expert in anything except my own life, but I know that a life worth having is a life worth living. I have lived flat and orderly, safe and protected in years past, but these past three years I have moved beyond the ordinary.
I have felt the rush of wind from the back of a motorcycle, swam in the ocean on a day so sunny that my eyes hurt. I have walked in moonbeams, kissed my prince, and danced all night with great abandon. I have spent time with children who still know how to pretend and imagine and laugh without holding back.
I have looked my ninety year old grandmother in the eyes and held her face, while I brushed her hair and said my goodbyes. I have written love songs and poetry, chosen tattoos and wear them proudly, written a memoir, started this blog, and danced in the rain. I have looked fear in the face and skydived from 15,000 feet and spent days doing exactly what I wanted to do, writing and trying to share with the world what I am learning. I have loved and lost, laughed and cried in my pillow for days, but every moment was worth the pain or conquered fear.
These past few months I began saying yes more to adventure and met some wonderful people. My birthday this year was one of the best of my life, because I am free to live my life as my own and chose to have an adventure that lasted four days. I will keep those days in my heart as my own and not share them, because my life is mine.
The knowledge that my life is my own, given by God and led by him and not anyone else has liberated me. I am comfortable in my own skin and feel every breeze and raindrop with an intensity that I had forgotten existed.
When we live our best lives and let the sparkle of it show in our eyes, we are transformed. People around us will feel better and our happiness and intensity will inspire. Try it, open up your eyes and live your life with joy and freedom.
Let go of your pain and old baggage, clear your mind of anger and doubt and dare to not be mad or hurt anymore. Dare to let the past fade and move on.
Live your life as you feel it and want it, as you were designed to do. You were created for a purpose and deserve the wonderful life God will fill you with right now. Risk a life out of the ordinary...
Barefoot,
writing and living,
Kim
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To live a life worth living, one worth feeling, one where you grow involves RISK.
Life Lesson 35: Risk a life out of the ordinary.
Greatness comes from the doing, not just watching. Living comes from getting involved and participating, not from a sideline seat. Become the lead character in your own life and get off the couch. Get up and do something you have always wanted to try. I do not claim to be an expert in anything except my own life, but I know that a life worth having is a life worth living. I have lived flat and orderly, safe and protected in years past, but these past three years I have moved beyond the ordinary.
I have felt the rush of wind from the back of a motorcycle, swam in the ocean on a day so sunny that my eyes hurt. I have walked in moonbeams, kissed my prince, and danced all night with great abandon. I have spent time with children who still know how to pretend and imagine and laugh without holding back.
I have looked my ninety year old grandmother in the eyes and held her face, while I brushed her hair and said my goodbyes. I have written love songs and poetry, chosen tattoos and wear them proudly, written a memoir, started this blog, and danced in the rain. I have looked fear in the face and skydived from 15,000 feet and spent days doing exactly what I wanted to do, writing and trying to share with the world what I am learning. I have loved and lost, laughed and cried in my pillow for days, but every moment was worth the pain or conquered fear.
These past few months I began saying yes more to adventure and met some wonderful people. My birthday this year was one of the best of my life, because I am free to live my life as my own and chose to have an adventure that lasted four days. I will keep those days in my heart as my own and not share them, because my life is mine.
The knowledge that my life is my own, given by God and led by him and not anyone else has liberated me. I am comfortable in my own skin and feel every breeze and raindrop with an intensity that I had forgotten existed.
When we live our best lives and let the sparkle of it show in our eyes, we are transformed. People around us will feel better and our happiness and intensity will inspire. Try it, open up your eyes and live your life with joy and freedom.
Let go of your pain and old baggage, clear your mind of anger and doubt and dare to not be mad or hurt anymore. Dare to let the past fade and move on.
Live your life as you feel it and want it, as you were designed to do. You were created for a purpose and deserve the wonderful life God will fill you with right now. Risk a life out of the ordinary...
Barefoot,
writing and living,
Kim
about the author
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