Life is long yup said it again

💙LIFE IS LONG, people…yup…I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and YES I APPLY IT TO THE POSSIBILITY that “long” is a RELATIVE TERM and that my physical life here on this earth as I know MAY not exist past next week-and YET, I’d STILL endorse approaching it with this paradigm…
🧿year after year (and hopefully for MANY more!) these pics pop into my feed-the months of chemo in 2016-that HELPED me reject the fear-based mantra of “life is short” which left me feeling a desperate sense of racing against some proverbial clock to “do all the things”-rather than feel that it’s essence was reminding me to relish what is truly IMPORTANT in life, it left me feeling that “every moment not savored was somehow a blemish” against REALLY living and that a possibly truncated life would then leave me with regrets. Blahhh.
💙so INSTEAD I offer you this “potato” instead of the other “potAHto”-life is LONG-length is relative-but however LONG it ends up being if you engage and reflect with intention THEN you need not feel the constant angst of worrying that you’re “wasting time” but rather that ANY situation in which you find yourself, if ENGAGED with on some level-WILL be of value and thus you can live the SHITE out of WHATEVER moments you have-without the “pressure” that they ALL have to be fantabulous. EACH little simple event (even the most mundane) can add value with this approach without the classic FOMO based sense of “omg my life is not the stuff of a perfect IG feed”
💙it requires decision, intention, patience, creativity AND a desire to engage in your physical and emotional surrounding THOUGH sometimes that takes the simplistic form of acknowledging that merely SITTING somewhere that seems boring, un-profound, unglamorous, non-productive where you do nothing “worthy” by our typical metrics can STILL offer you so many small insights and comforts if only you let them….
🧿so that’s my Monday mindset nugget-I’ll be taking a nap after a beautiful bear of a week on call…
‼️TRY it out and tell me YOUR perspective-do YOU feel MOTIVATED or PARALYZED by the pithiness of “life is short” ⁉️
#lifeislong #lifeisalongjourney #mondaymantras #mondaymusings #chemo #ovariancancer