Evaluating Your Life

By Shereema Ibrahim, March 2009

 

There are many things one must take into consideration when evaluating your life. We could go on and on making a list of all of our experiences starting from childhood all the way to the present, but should we? One could propose to rack one’s brain on the timeline of events, but why give ourselves a headache? Maybe it would better to start at the present and just ask ourselves, “How do I feel?” Allow the raw emotions of letting one go without prejudice of any kind and just feel. For that moment in time you ask yourself, “Am I alive?” Yes maybe everything is not as you would have dreamed it to be, but yet here you are able to think, able to breathe and able even to question your life. So then you must ask yourself, “Why?” Maybe you are or have been married and maybe you haven’t; Maybe you have children or maybe you don’t; Maybe you’ve had a lot of hardships or maybe you haven’t; Maybe you are spiritual and maybe you’re not. But above all you have life and where there is life, there is HOPE.

HOPE is what we all have no matter what. The opportunity for a better tomorrow regardless how bleak it may seem at the time. When we acknowledge this single promise of life, we must SMILE and make ourselves feel good. Give ourselves the single liberty to LOVE foremost ourselves enough to know and TRUST in the HOPE. Then we will know the true value of our life. It’s just living it. 

LIFE & SECRETS

 Secrets....why do we choose to keep them and why almost always when we do someone inevitably gets hurt.  We must learn to know, and this is the tricky part, when not to tell, when to keep what we know a secret.  There is a certain wisdom that accomplishes this feat of which most of us do not have.  You have to have a true sense of "truth" and how it works in this world and then of course, the spiritual world. The absolute "truth" can very often me most painful, but the flip side could be with the knowledge and understanding of that "truth" an individual or many will go about their lives making choices based upon a lie, a "secret" that was kept because someone thought they were wise enough to know how YOU or OTHERS would do without such knowledge.  Unfortunately, they were wrong, terribly wrong making choices for you, taking away your FREE WILL...."SECRETS" almost always hurt when are finally told.  The discovery of things that could have helped us put things into their proper prospective and makes our survival levels higher and our spirits stronger.   But someone chose for you, their untalented wisdom to hold back from you your rights...The expression, "it takes a whole village to raise a child" means just that.  Your community of family and close friends should be your circle of trust....which means....TRUTH....NO SECRETS.  Maybe one day people will come to realize how detriment "secrets" are to everyone.  If we live with "truth" and "respect", we will realize that it is much wiser to give the choice and exercise "respect" for all by telling the "absolute truth".  Above all be true to yourself!