Off-the-Shelf or a Custom Life: Which Will You Choose?
We all have choices to make. At any given moment, we are making choices that are actively writing the stories of our lives. We become the culmination of the choices we make. A constant work in progress, being revised in the everyday moments of life. It can be easy to forget the importance of how we choose to spend our time, our energy, our space, our life, when we are living in the day-to-day that may feel ordinary or endless. It can be easy to get caught up in autopilot mode—to forget to stop and be present, to really be conscious of what we are actually doing and why. It can be easy to forget that we each have free will to make our own choices, or that we are entirely capable of pivoting if we need to.
Living life takes effort and energy. Life is an energetic exchange. We each get what we put into it. And its up to every person to decide what they each want from life. What is it they value? What do they desire? What is their mission or reason for being? What higher movement are we serving? Many of these life’s questions are meant to be explored as we journey through the adventure of life. Perhaps we will never fully have a concrete answer. Maybe we have a sense of what it may be but we need to test it. Maybe they change and evolve over time? We all get to decide for ourselves, and they will be unique and different. They can be anything to anyone, and that is the diversity of life.
Life is a process of forever knitting, unraveling, and re-knitting itself. Sometimes we need to build, and sometimes we need to break it down. Sometimes we need to expand and sometimes we need to die. Sometimes we fall in love and sometimes we say goodbye. But in the end, what we create out of all the re-knitting, re-purposing, re-building, is a life. A culmination of our choices, our cycles, our experiences, and our learnings. Life is what we make of it.
Everyday, we get to reaffirm the same choice or we get to make different choices. We can choose what is given to or expected of us, or we can choose what we want. We can choose predictabilty for the sake of comfort, or we can choose the unknown for the sake of growth. We can choose illusion, or we can choose the pursuit of Truth. We can choose the conventional path, or we can choose to forge our own. We can choose an off-the-shelf life, or we can choose to create our own. Making our own choices requires us to cultivate our own energy and our own power. It’s up to every person to decide how they want to live, what they want to live for, and who they want to live for. In the end, it has and always will be your choice.