Welcome all,
For my first blog, I would like to talk about just being.
It may seem self-explanatory but we all struggling with it to some capacity and some point in our lives.
After graduating 3 years ago, I found this so difficult but you could also be feeling this after your children have just left home or you have retired. I struggled coming out of a structured institution that I was always achieving or working towards achieving and then going into what we call ‘the real world’. Finding a purpose once again, making money, and learning to be my own stability. However, I struggled and struggled until my girlfriend and I decided to travel. Whilst traveling along with having the best time, I learned this skill, the skill to just be and truly be present in that moment. No pressure on what I was achieving to going to achieve but just having conversations with a stranger or trying a new food, taking that picture to capture this moment.
In this society, we can feel as if when we are not working on something or achieving something we have no purpose. Nevertheless, when we go back to the beginning of evolution, we see that humans didn’t worry about that work promotion or getting a master’s (which are all great things) but instead about how to catch dinner or keeping themselves warm. When we go back to our roots and eliminate all this work ethic that has been created through the years. You come back to this idea that we have one life and I don’t know about you but I plan to just be and in that be happy.
It is okay, to not be working on something or achieving something but rather just enjoying the now. Sitting in nature and fully allowing yourself to relax is far better for you, than any work promotion. Your life is yours and your mental health has to be a priority, don’t add pressure on yourself to figure it all out or find your next thing to achieve but appreciate giving yourself this time to just be, AND DON’T FEEL GUILTY ABOUT IT!
In transitions and in life we will naturally all experience many of these, allow yourself to just be!
Have a wonderful week,
Sophie Hope.
Thank you so much Sophie hope for being my quest blogger this week ,beautiful insight from a beautiful soul .