Have you ever asked yourself, what am I supposed to be doing with my life? Instead, according to Kathleen Taylor, a licensed mental health counselor who spent much of her career working with hospice patients, we should be asking ourselves Who am I being with my life.
Throughout our lives we strive to reach an “ideal”, some standard that we think is expected of us. The elderly have it right, says Taylor. Those who are in the last chapter of their lives have reached a point where they stopped living for everyone else. We may lose our physical strength, and our mental abilities will diminish over time, but the power to continue to grow our souls, continues until we’ve taken our last breath.
Maybe it’s an overused cliché, to live everyday like it’s your last, but instead of creating a bucket list of exotic adventures, historic places to see, or people to shake hands with, create a single entry in your list – “live an authentic life”, and don’t wait until the dying process to tackle it.
Dying people teach us that it’s never too late to discard what’s false in our lives and to become the person we really are. Taylor says we should all say, it’s never too soon to find out who you really are. So why wait until we’ve reached the end of our life? Don’t look back with any regrets and find yourself at the end of your journey saying, “I wish I’d had the courage to live life true to myself and not the life others expected of me.”
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