I had a message today that hit me as soon as I left home in the dark at 6am to go to the gym. It was cold, very foggy and as I stared down my road which was half covered in fog, my brain suddenly said “This is a learning moment.”
Then I suddenly had lots of thoughts flooding in so I am trying to make sense of them.
We all have and need learning moments. Some lessons are more obvious, some keep repeating which I take as a sign that we didn’t learn the last time so have to go through it again. Some lessons don’t hit us until months or even years later when we may suddenly get an “Aha!” moment (not the Norwegian band. Morten Harket – teenage swooon).
One thing for sure in my experience, learning moments come through hard times, challenges, gnarly and painful experiences that can break us or make us. What happens when you hit rock bottom? There is only one way to go – slowly up, step by step. Sometimes we may fall backwards and then we climb up again. We have to keep going until we find ourselves – wiser, kinder, more compassionate and more resilient.
The path to enlightenment isn’t all butterflies and roses where you suddenly become engulfed in a cloud of glitter. It is tough, it requires vulnerability, courage and we must be humble enough to face some elements about ourselves that are not very nice and need addressing. We can always do better in some way, none of us are perfect, and this is what makes people so fascinating – we are all flawed. We create our own worlds and they are vastly different.
My message to myself today is this:
Never stop learning
Always be curious
Be kind with your behaviour and words
Live each day the best you can
Listen to A-Ha ‘Take on Me’ (on repeat a few times)
May your day be blessed with love and light.
健康 Jiànkāng 