All There Is To Do

My work on personal development started with my losing everything in 2003 and facing my worst demons as a result. I subsequently made a commitment to have the best life possible and could already see that in order to do so I would have to strip away all the self limiting beliefs that had created my life as it was at that time. The resultant liberation allowed many benefits including the ability to write from my heart and describe my pain and also see life with new eyes, optimistic ones, hopeful ones, ones where whatever the circumstances would allow me to see the benefit even in the most sad events. In this case, I tried to see the positive aspects of struggling to cope with and rationalise my mother's suffering with Alzheimer's disease.

All There Is To Do

As her illness prevents much further participation in life, I realise my mother has done all she came here to do; nothing more; nothing less. For me, the expectation of this or that fulfilment leaves me empty, looking for what shouldn’t be and ignoring all that is and was; failing to acknowledge the contribution she has been to me and so many others.

Seeing that all there is to do in life is what we do in life and that there is peace without expectation gives us the freedom to get on with life with a sense of urgency and not to take for granted that there’ll be another tomorrow.

There will always be things that we do not have time to do and we can either fight it or accept it. Then all there is to do is to be unreasonable and not put off till tomorrow what we can do today: how exciting and dynamic: even if tomorrow doesn’t come, we know we savoured every moment of life and squeezed every last drop there was to get. And then there is peace.