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IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER

There's a page from Ram Dass's 'Journey of Awakening' which is simply a short letter from a older woman entitled 'IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER'. I found myself taken by her words (which you can read here), and I thought that it was a nice little template on which to project my own wishes. Here is my own version.

If I had my life to live over, I’d like to give myself permission to fail more often. I’d take more breaks and not endlessly search for achievement. I would do some goofy shit. I would talk more without thinking and meet more people without assessing. I would wait for fewer reassurances and take more risks.

I am without a doubt one of those people who lives as sanely as possible. Who weighs out every option and makes sure that I am taking the optimal path, the most correct path, the path of least of trouble.

I think I would rather have *more* trouble, and I worry that the amount of caution that I take will only result in me having little to show for all of my thinking.

As much as I would go outward, If I had my life to live over I would go inward ad well. I would stop more. I would take more pauses. I would distract myself less.

I would find the combination of inwardness and outwardness that, when combined, creates the magical feeling of presentness that we so often lack.

Good news — I have more life to live.