A Fortunate Life

Every day is filled with challenges.  Every day I ask myself what it is I have to do?  Where am I suppose to be?  Is everyone I love OK?  What about the animals?  And every night I go to sleep and get up and do it again.  It is not hard to wonder what this is all about.  Immediately I receive an answer - it is about what matters the most to me.

Children

My beautiful children!  I look at them in awe and wonder how I could have been part of creating such amazing life forms.  So intelligent.  So much strong will in each of them and perfectly unique.  Each one of them are a celebration of my very first breath. 

When it comes to my kids, there is not enough hours in my life where I could even possibly imagine explaining how I feel about them.  So mostly I don't and just hope they know.

One thing I have come to realise is that I want to give them the greatest gift I can and that is of  non-attachment. 

I feel I am a very nurturing type of person.  And it has come with a great amount of courage to realise that if I want my children to be all they can be I must always allow them to be themselves and not force them into a place where they worry about what I think of them and have no expectations.  I believe children should need us more than we need them, and for that reason I release them.  Release them as free, unique, independent beings.  Free to create their own life.  Free to experience the reason they are here on this planet. 

Romance

I am incredibly fortunate in my life to be loved by an amazing person.  A person that understands me.  A person that smiles at me when I feel so damn angry and just tells me I am loved.  A person that aches to spend time with and rushes home to me after work.  I am truly blessed to be so loved.

I have had my share of heart breaks like most others have.  But for some reason I was lucky to land on a soft place.  Perhaps for the first time I am realising I too am deserving of happiness.  Such a wondrous awakening. 

Environment

Wow!  All my life living in the Burbs, all i wanted was to live in the country.  When I was 12 I asked my mother to send me to boarding school in the country, just so I could go there.  Finally, after a very long time I found my way to the land.  Misty Hollow is my santurary.  It has renewed my soul.  Allowed me to reflect back on the haste and bustle of city living and reclaim who I am.


Overall, when people think of what makes them successful in life it is usually money, love, relationships, children, fame.. Money and fame have never meant much to me but; love, relationships, children and peace of mind have.  I have all of these things nearly and like the rest of you I am working on the peace of mind.  But I am so fortunate that I believe I shall find that here in Misty Hollow.

My dream:  To have all my children sit down at the table to a meal, a day filled with laughter, happiness and celebration.  Eating the food that I have grown, cooked and shared.  That is my dream.  A simple one but so pleasurable. 


Love to all.
Rae.

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