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.