Never Too Late!

It's never too late to become

the person you might have been.

George Eliot

Sometimes I cannot help but wonder how my life might have been if I had returned to Chicago after college rather than marrying and becoming a mother in a small city.  The social life of a big city does not enter into the equation, but the challenge of social services in a large city would have been daunting.  The harshness of life may have altered my personality, values, and attitudes immensely.  Then again, I may have followed a writing career which would have led me through a variety of experiences. 

Even now, however, years later, I still have the opportunity to write.  Perhaps not as a career, but giving writing the attention my life now allows.  I post on my blog every day, belong to a writers group, journal and  continue to work on a handbook.  My livelihood does not depend upon my writing, so it is a joy rather than a pressure to produce. 

Many women return to earlier passions ... piano lessons, dance lessons, additional education, small business entrepreneurs or various opportunities in the arts.  It is never too late to expand and grow ourselves to the fullest of our desires.

LIfe Gets in the Way

It is never too late

to become the person

you might have been.

George Elliot

We can have the most excellent plan, everything nailed down

to the last task of the to do list, when life saunters in changing everything.  We can have created the most beautiful dream job or built a dream come true home, when life manages to interrupt wisking dreams away.  Life gets in the way.

At the thundersous moment when life shakes our world as we have known it, we may feel crushed and unwilling to pick up the pieces to begin once again.  In time, however, we all seem to brush our selves off and begin life's journey best that we can.

We are like the boulder by the ocean.  Lessons of life wash over us continuously smoothing our edges and minutely changing our form.  Lesson by lesson we become washed and cleansed by the on going waves of life.

If passion remains to accomplish your heart's desire, find a way to bring it into reality.  Even though life gets in the way, it doesn't mean that desire needs to be squashed.  Life might be saying the time is not right, or the approach is all wrong or more information is needed. 

Life intends to create change or a different outcome.  When our hopes are dashed, it doesn't necessarily mean forever.  As time passses, when we carefully examine what went awry, we will intuit on our own, that the result we had planned would never have materialized for a now obvious reason.  A reason we might not have ever seen at the past moment of unraveling.

Life gets in the way as the natural course of living.  We are not being punished or judged, we are simply being groomed through the lessons presented.  Life is not trying to beat us down, but rather present multiple ways for us to experience the necessary lessons which with resilience, we become the person we had wanted to become.  It is never too late!