Life doesn't have to be hard to go through. Life doesn't have to be something that we struggle through until bedtime each night whereupon we can only see ourselves repeating the journey all over again the next day. Life is meant to be more than that.

Of this I'm sure.

We search and we look and we question and we wonder what's it all about? What is each day inherently all about and supposed to be for? What is the meaning of each day that we exist?

Sometimes it just doesn't make sense and I know that the vast majority of people truly don't know the answer yet want to seek solace in the belief that they do. That's fine. Let them continue to do that.

Personally, I've had it with that delusion.

I don't know why what happens to me happens to me. As I've written about in other articles, the old adage 'everything happens for a reason' sometimes is beyond questioning. And sometimes it's beyond bewilderment.

One works so hard to understand what existence is about and yet life keeps coming full bore and one is left holding up another Life wall that is about to come crashing in on them. Why does this happen?

Why do some people believe that it is their role in life to make others live's somehow conform to theirs so that their walls stay upright and they don't have to do any work to improve their world and keep it from crashing down on them?

That, to me, doesn't make sense. Why? Because it's a waste of a golden opportunity to learn about one's self.

Life is supposed to be joyful and full of wonder and wonderment. It's a blessing that we've been given every millisecond that we're still able to be vertical in this world. Life isn't something we earn and struggle through. It's something we are given to learn from.

One of my inner development teachers, Vernon Howard, stated a fair number of years ago that the point of life isn't to grow old, it's to grow up.

How better this planet would be if the majority of people held dear that attitude and worked on themselves like they should be doing so they could truly live the gift that Life is.

Life isn't about growing old, its about growing up.

Think about that. Think about what that entails.

It means to live each new day unlike the ones before it. Every day, not just tomorrow, but every tomorrow. Until they're throwing dirt on your face when you're in the ground.

Life is about shaking off the chains of the past that we all seem to have been born into by societal influences and we also voluntarily pick up and attach ourselves to so that we can go through life like Marley in A Christmas Carol. That is, going through life with the chains that we had the opportunity to have not be chained by and to, but instead we continued to make choices that attached but another link to our already lengthy Life chain.

We aren't here very long. Any of us. We aren't going to be here much longer. Oh sure, several decades sounds like a long time. But think about the last several that you lived. In retrospect, how quickly did they go by?

We can choose to live our lives like there is no tomorrow or we can continue to drag our past in front of us and walk into it.

Predictable.

Pain.

Safety.

Tip-toeing through life.

And throwing darkness onto ourselves and others.

It doesn't have to be that way. For any of us.

I know for myself that I have worked hard to rid myself of the dark influences in my life, both internally and through relationships with others. I don't want to be holding up others' walls so they don't come crashing down on them.

Life is too short to be spent worrying about a life that someone else doesn't want to live for themselves.

It's enough work to live our own life. A full-time job 'till Death do us part'.

Remember, life isn't about growing old, it's about growing up.

Think about that.

Grow up.

Even if you're 70 years old.

Grow up.

Even if you're a mother, a father, a grandparent.

Grow up.

A business executive for a Fortune 100 company.

Grow up.

A priest, a Buddhist monk.

Grow up.

A teenager. An addict.

Grow up.

A Mensa genius. A high school dropout.

Grow up.

Life is too short to be lived like there IS a tomorrow.

Life is too short to drag our past into the future so we know what to expect.

Life is too short to burden others with our responsibility to grow up for ourselves.

Grow up.

Yes...

YOU.

Don't avoid the truth.

We all need to grow up.

Growing old is taking care of itself with each of us and this carcass we each inhabit for a while.

But we, as the only conscious creatures on this planet, can do differently for what we can control.

We can grow up.

Will you?

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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