It all comes to nothing…
I cried, but I also felt free.
With this realisation
With this acceptance…
My ‘conditioning’ was based on continual striving, somewhere… To do your best, to be a good person, to think of others, to achieve, to never rest, to never complain.. To keep going.
I recognised this very early; but freeing myself from the constraints of this energy – which of course was all mine, simply reflected back in the play out of my life – well it took time.
There was a cycle of letting go, following by a taking up of the reins once more, and a setting off with great enthusiasm and zeal.
Many projects, some begun and aborted… Many taking me on wonderful journeys of self discovery and growth, great learning and a gradually deepening of acceptance of my self…
The adventures were often rewarding, fun, successful… But still there was this nagging driving force coming out of the fear… The fear of being wrong
Not measuring up
Just not good enough….
This is a familiar energy in our culture – many of you will recognise it – and in our society it is written about too; there are courses and books and seminars designed to remind you that…
You are enough, as you are.
You are who you are and it is enough…
But still the patterns can continue; the drive to succeed, to achieve not coming from the sheer joy of finding out, stretching and allowing the creative expression its arena…
I freed myself…
And part of the freedom for me came from the acceptance that when that final curtain falls, its all gone, it’s all come to nothing… This deep acknowledgement within me, somehow freed me to approach any endeavour or idea or adventure or project from a completely different position…
From one step to the next… Being fully in that step and trusting that the next would take care of itself..
Being in the flow and going with it…
Of course for others this isn’t always the case… The legacy they leave is important to them… The people they have given birth to, the books they have written, the businesses they have created …
We do not know the path another treads… We do not know what they have come to find out, to live out to experience
Each person’s journey their own…
But for me the freedom from feeling somehow wrong, that I hadn’t measured up, that I still needed to somehow earn my place came with that realisation
It all comes to nothing
There is no point
Its simply an experience
Our energy playing out.
A deeper recognition of my soul in motion…
A deeper connection to the no thing from whence we all came…
And I was free…
To play, to have fun, to let my spirit be truly free,
And; in an even better position than before to guide and support others in their own endeavours, and experiences and desires and needs to express and to find out.
In a better position to guide and support them to live and breathe and be here in whatever way they want to be here.
There is no one way.
Only the way within you.