Its time before the dawn when the darkness has completed its objectives to give us the time to introspect, learn and develop insight. This is the time when we are only with ourselves without a ray of light, without any burden of expectations and without any string attached, just being.
This is the time to discover our inner core and resolve to live our purpose. The purpose may be as humble as being a good person or may be as huge as changing the world for better. It doesn’t matter.
What matters is our complete commitment to put our best foot forward and take charge of the journey called life. Yes, I know I am not saying anything new yet it needs to be showered like morning dew. As long as we live, for each and every moment of it, let us be alive, fully here and now. We are alive, we are committed, yet we will be at our best when we are fully there.
What are the signs of being fully alive or completely committed?
The first sign is complete openness to learn, understand and appreciate.
The second sign is humbleness, sensitivity, forgiveness and humanity.
The third and final sign is unconditional respect, unwavering faith and endless optimism to life at large.
I know it’s not so easy especially when you are still facing the darkest hour of your life. Yet that is when it is most worthwhile to begin. One of the first baby steps one can take is to empower oneself with information. Churning of the information produces knowledge, food for intelligence. Simultaneously we need to nourish the heart with forgiveness and compassion for self and others. The well nourished heart should be encouraged to transform the intelligence into wisdom for humanity.
Who will do this? Our soul, our spirit. Not only our survival instinct but more so our revival instinct. This is just the beginning, inner preparedness to be alive. The proof of the pudding is in eating .The evidence of wisdom is in action with total awareness and untiring persistence.
One of the key reasons why being alive is not so easy-is other’s unpreparedness to accept and appreciate the immense potential of inner core. It’s precious to have people and relationships around us that let us be, offers faith to bloom further and gives us space to evolve & expand. Realistically it’s not only precious, but also rare. It would be wise to be prepared for resistance to change from our surroundings as we start revealing the core nature of our self .One cannot blame them for lack of understanding as they are yet to understand themselves. The only hope for them to understand others lies in enabling them to being alive to their own inner core.
While falling down being alive means flapping your wings with all your might and not giving up. And just like the first flight of the baby bird, most of the times, the life turns around. While someone else is falling downwards, being alive means expressing unconditional respect, unwavering faith and endless optimism in the ability of the falling soul to turn around.
Being alive culminates into living the purpose of life inside out i.e. serving the stake holders and the community at large to the best of your abilities. Life commands that we be alive to our responsibilities, privileges and possibilities without any excuse. Effective implemented ideas, optimum utilization of potential and enthusiastic execution with endurance are deserved by everyone alive. In other words the minimum thing that we can do during our lifetime is to be alive.Life is above all situations and relationships. Our first commitment is to our life. To give justice to our existence. The soul is infinite but incarnation i.e. this life is finite with expiry date unknown to us. Hence to every moment of it starting right now let us be alive.
Honored to be alive with you.
Shilpa Savant
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