Three Ways to Live Life
There are, in my opinion, three ways in which we can choose to live life. There are, as such, three realities people place their lives into.
I have written about this before in previous posts, but I think it bears exploring further.
Yes, I acknowledge off the bat that these are generalities. But let’s also face another fact: everyone is unique. We all think, feel and act differently from one another. The processes that go into this vary, and though there are similarities, we are all still totally different.
Yet throughout the years, as I have examined, studied, and gotten to know my fellow members of the human race, these three choices on how to live life remain pretty standard.
Of course, there are shifts between them. Certain times and experiences will bring them out in us in different ways. Yet for the most part, this is how people live their lives, in an extremely broad and general sense.
Let’s explore this, shall we.
First way to live life – Let Life Live You
It is my belief that the vast majority of people live in this reality.
What does that mean? It means that people who let life live them go through the motions, go about a daily routine, and seldom make any choices that might rock the boat much.
How many people do you know who complain about this or that, do what is necessary to live, but never seem to take chances, or make significant changes? Or they seem perfectly content to just get up, go to work, go home, crash in front of the TV, go to bed and repeat? Or they seem to be sheeple, going along with whatever is expected and never seeming to voice an original thought or opinion?
Now here’s where this gets fuzzy. The people we are closest to, as far as we can tell, tend not to just let life live them. They seem to have their shit together, and be doing things that light them up and make them, at least, content.
The best way to know is to listen to what they say. Do they talk about unrealized ambitions and goals? Do they change their opinion frequently based on what others around them are holding? Does it seem like they are always wanting, but never doing anything about it?
I’ve done this. Lots of times. I would go about my life, without making much effort to do more than just exist. Sometimes this is really just the easiest way.
But if you desire to choose what your life is going to be like, then letting life live you will not work. You will want to do, be, and have more.
Letting life live you involves falling into routines and making little to no effort to leave them.
But then, there’s this:
Second way to live life – Curl up in a Ball, and Await Death
This can be literal, or not, but I think we all know someone who appears to live life in this manner.
People who curl up in a ball and await death tend to complain about everything. They are miserable. These people seem to find little or no happiness, life is struggle, a trial, a chore, and they always seem to look on the dark side. Little or no effort is made, they cannot see that things have a possibility of improving, and they tend to bring others down with them.
Many of the people who fall into this category are frequently victims. They were wronged by someone or something, and they always place the blame for their ills externally. More concerning, they may or may not be suicidal, which cannot be taken too lightly.
Whether physical, emotional, or psychological pain, they seem to prefer to wait out the end of life, rather than live for it now.
There is another group I place here. Those who spend this life praying and living for the next life. I am not ragging on religion here, or knocking anyone’s beliefs. However, if you ignore the life you have now in order to pray for the next life, the afterlife, or whatever-may-come with death, it’s still curling up on a ball and waiting for the end. Even letting life live you puts you more in the here-and-now than not at all.
Whatever form it takes, this second way to live life is the least fulfilling, and I’m going to go ahead and presume the least desirable. There are ALWAYS choices, and while some are really hard, I think they still beat ignoring the potential of this life and not living at all.
Now we come to that which causes me to write this blog:
Third way to live life – Grab the Bull that is Life by the Horns, and Go for a Ride
This is where you take charge, assume control, and get into the driver’s seat. You make choices, decisions, and strive to have an amazing life.
It is when you grab life by the horns and go for a ride that you truly experience life. This is where we are using consciousness to create reality, manifesting the things we want, and actively seeking out happiness, joy and satisfaction.
In choosing to live life in this way, we work to be in the here-and-now, explore the awareness of our thoughts, recognize the feelings we feel, and take intentional actions. We decide who we want to be, what we want to do, and how we can manifest it into being.
Everyone has done this. We took the chance and asked that person on a date. You bought the house. Changed jobs for a better, but unknown risk. When you were told “no”, or “that can’t be done,” or otherwise given a restriction or limitation, you decided it was not to be, and did it anyhow.
The difference between the moments and living life like this regularly is choice. Let’s face it, choosing to work in the now, and to explore and create the life we most desire, is not easy. At least, not at first.
Society and the collective consciousness believes in lack. Scarcity. And from there, expectations of how life should be lived. Yet because none of us are the same, this doesn’t work for us all. Further, when we recognize that the Universe is one of abundance, much more possibility opens up to us.
However you choose to live life, do it now
Because we are always growing and changing, which of these three ways to live life will differ, depending on any number of circumstances. Knowing we have a choice, however, we can see that we can work with consciousness to create reality, and manifest the best life possible.
How do you want to live life?
This is the three-hundred thirtieth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas for, and my personal experiences with, walking along the path of life. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way.
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