
Some things I truly believe are yours to keep, that no one can take from you:
Your spiritual practice. In my case, it is vajrayana buddhism. It has saved my life in many ways – both in dealing with chronic illness, but also the normal existential stuff like finding purpose and joy πππΌπΏ
Your ambitions and dreams (if they come from a place of pure motivation and love). In my case now, it has been starting a little family with children ππ€±
Your ethnicity and ancestry, no matter how lost or scattered it is in this modern world. In my case from my personal experience, I feel very connected to my home in the Arctic and being uralic/finno-ugric. I didn’t as a kid and teenager, at all, but now as I am older, I feel like I can “own” it more. I donβt speak any of the uralic languages, and feel a sadness about this. A disconnection from my own culture. And a feeling of not belonging to a community, when they canβt speak to me. I hope my son will not feel as disconnected. But I have found other ways to express this β primarily through art and duodji. Not all languages are of verbal nature, but are equally important, I think. π¨
Your creativity. Not necessarily arts, but anything you find a solution to that involves stepping out of the habitual intellectual mind and into a state of spontaneity and flow.π
Your struggles. This sounds negative, but for me I mean that my struggles are valid. I have a body that has its big share of physical problems, and I don’t mean to whine. At all! π Just to express that this is my reality, and that chronic (perhaps invisible to others) illness can happen to anyone, any time in life.π
Your love. This one sounds cheesy but I think we all can feel love and that we have love as a basic human need. To receive it and give it. And we all have different ways of showing it. I like giving gifts for example.. but am not so good verbally expressing how I feel. I like receiving kind loving deeds, but not to be smothered. So understanding how we show it differently is important too. I also believe that as humans we have the capacity to love many at the same time. Whether it is friends or partners, plural. Romantic, familial or platonic.β€
This is so beautiful and inspiring and just what I needed to remember today. Thank you πβ€
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Happy to hear this!β€ Extra nice to hear from a writer ππβ
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I would like to link back to this post if it’s ok? I want to put this into my weekly post entitled ’10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet this Week’ it will be coming out around the 12th of November. I found this post very inspiring xxx
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Yes absolutely! πππ» thank you πΈ xx
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