Just One Question
Whenever I travel, I always have a checklist to make sure I have everything I need for my trip. It may be a short weekend getaway or a month-long trip; the basic items to bring along are more or less the same.
Recently, prior to embarking on a trip, as I was going through the usual routine of packing with my checklist in hand, it suddenly occurred to me that I never really thought about the journey that each and every one of us will take, which is our journey of life. A journey that begins with birth and ends when we take our last breath. My mind started wondering incessantly. Do we actually have a checklist for our journey of life? How do we equip ourselves for this journey?
As we move through the different stages of our life; from childhood to our teenage years to being young adults to getting married to being parents and to old age. Are we emotionally and mentally equipped, to go through each stage of life, responding to circumstances, road blocks and changes, instead of reacting to it? I don’ t know about you, but I for sure wasn’ t, because I never had a checklist to make sure I had everything to help me move through the challenges which continually surfaced as I moved through the different stages of life.
Now, as I look back in retrospect, I see that the younger version of me did go through the different phases of life feeling helpless, hopeless, and powerless. She felt like a victim and blamed the outside world for making her feel that way.