Cruising

A friend of mine recently took a cruise and it got me thinking, again. Here’s the thing. People take cruises and from what I hear they absolutely love them for the most part. What do they love? Well, they love the scenery, they love to be catered to, and they love the destination, which is quite often tropical. But even if it’s not tropical I still hear the same thing over and over. “Oh my God that was so amazing, so refreshing, so freeing, I could live my life there”. Hmmmmm. Then why don’t you? It should be a drop the mic moment, but what I usually hear are two things, crickets or excuses. You see, people are so caught up into living life on the hamster wheel that they forget that we can actually live whatever life we choose. It can easily become, “oh but I can’t do that, I have bills, how would I do that, it’s too hard, it’s too expensive”, on and on and on. People love to go on cruises, but they easily drift back into the same Ol life they were desperately trying to escape. They love visiting and daydreaming about how wonderful and magical the cruise is but don’t put it together that their life could actually exist in that environment. Would it be hard, would it be a change? Absolutely. But wouldn’t it be worth it? If you love it so much, why not live it?

It is extremely difficult to get out of the mindset that we are supposed to work a 40-hour week. And then we keep ourselves busy on the weekends doing laundry, cleaning house, doing yard work, fixing the car. Yep, all a part of life to some degree. But it doesn’t have to be set in stone. Life is meant to ebb and flow, not be stagnant. But we get so comfortable with stagnant that we don’t even know we’re slowly dying. We just trudge on to the next day, looking forward to the weekend, just to start the cycle all over again. What if???? What if you could work in your field of passion? Well, I’d say then it wouldn’t be work, but a labor of love. I don’t see too many people loving what they do when I look around. I see tired, worn out, sad, biological robots going through the motion’s day in and day out. And to a great degree I also put myself in this category. It’s frustrating. It’s frustrating to share the truth and it’s frustrating to live the truth. If I knew how to fix this, I would be a millionaire, own my own island and be living my own passion filled life. But a large part of the problem is that getting over that first step is like climbing Mt. Everest.

But I implore you to not give up hope. To not lose sight of your dreams. To continue to press on toward a life that potentially could set your soul free. Take the cruise, take the trip, breathe in whatever it is that sent you on that journey. Be aware. Be courageous. Dare to dream and dare to live. For life is but for a moment in the big scheme of things. And every day that passes is a day you can’t get back and you are not living as you truly desire. It could be one or even a few of a million different trails and journey’s you could take, but to not venture out is like allowing chains to be draped around your neck of daily existence. Find yourself, know yourself and live outside of the bondage that we so blindly have bought into. Become free, become empowered. Fuel the passion and live your best life because you can. My hope is that this writing is a match to ignite you, and for you to go forth and spread the flame so that others may also join you on what could be an amazing lifegiving journey. See you on the trail.