Chase Your Dreams

Chase Your Dreams

Thursday, 30 July 2015

The Simple Things In Life...

 soaking my feet in the ocean
 Today I found that I finally feel that I know myself. The person I want to be, and will be. Someone who enjoys life for every moment present, not the past, and not that far into the future. That does not mean I haven't got dreams for my future, but I am now taking each day as it comes and making sure I don't dwell on my past, and thinking of the simple pleasures in my life that make me happy.

Starting on Saturday 1st August, I am going to post of facebook each day something that makes me smile. It is also the first anniversary of the passing of my beloved grandmother, whom I miss terribly every day.

My Beautiful Golden Retriever
This morning I had a very interesting dream,  I am one that believes that messages from past loved ones are given to us. I have dreamed of a particular garden for a long time, one that has a long wandering pathway to a gate, most times I have been able to go through this gate, and  and into an area like a nursery of plants, that seem to be lined up, some times they are well watered and other times not, but in this mornings dream, I didn't see the gate and was more focused on the new pools that were put in.

On thinking about this dream as it was so very clear, in colour and had sound, I feel that the gate represented my past, and finally I have been able to close the gate and focus now on what is important such as my swimming (hence the pools). I found today that I for once have a feeling of calmness and lightness.

flowers in my garden
Its interesting to learn as a 40 something woman that has been through an eating disorder for over 30 years and understanding why I ended up with one. Suffering a heart attack in my mid to late 30's caused by salmonella septicemia, living with Coeliac Disease (gluten allergy), Depression (part of eating disorder), having to let go of certain relationships in order to become healthy, that these trials I have been through in my life have helped me to become the person I am today. Without these I wouldn't have learnt so much about myself and others.

I can now live each day knowing I am living the best life I can on that day that I have been blessed to have. I have dreams and goals that in time will happen, and I am working very hard to help them to happen.

If there is anything I can take away from my life so far, is we are truly blessed to have each day we can take a breath, smile and know we are a live. We go through many trials in life for reasons, and its up to us to learn and understand these, and not dwell on the negatives in these trials, but to find the positives that we are to take away and live.

I just hope we can all find tomorrow that something simple thing that makes you stop and smile...

Have a great day...

Hayley xx

Bottlebrush flower with a bee in it.

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