Don’t Get “Bugs In Your Eyes”…
You Need to Know What This Means
Welcome back to Loving Later Life!
I think I mentioned to you that there will be times when I want to share some of my previously published articles, or portions of them. As I peruse these older pieces, they are giving me a little insight into what I was going through at the time. In a way they’re kind of like reading my diary, only they were published!
The article I wrote that I’m going to read you in this episode coincides with the idea that we all need one another; not only at this time of year, but all the year round. This point is driven home (another pun intended which you’ll understand once you listen) in a TV show I was watching some years ago, using an analogy with the help of a term that bikers use. It’s very powerful, and I hope you’ll come with me on this road trip as I am certain it will have an impact.
Not be missed take-ways:
1. If you keep a diary or journal, show yourself compassion when re-reading it. Acknowledge and appreciate where you were at that time of your life.
2. Social relationships are as important to our health as diet and exercise, and what matters most is the quality of the bonds, not the origin. It doesn’t matter if they are relatives, what matters most is that the bonds are stable and positive.
3. You can’t always be the lead hog. When we ride, we ride in formation. We trade out the lead, because if you stay in the front of the pack for too long, you get bugs in your eyes … You need to let other people help you. It doesn’t make you any less of a rider.
4. From Margaret J. Wheatley: “Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone.
5. Don’t get bugs in your eyes. Choose who you want riding alongside you, let them help you when you need it, and have a fucking good time.
And your mission, that I hope you’ll choose to accept…
1) Make space for some quite time and take a look inside. Are you trying to do it all yourself? Have you closed yourself off to letting people be there for you? If so, and you could use some support, ask for it.
2) Look at who is in your ‘village’ now. Do they align with who you are now? If not, ask yourself if you want to do something about that.
3) Take the next right step to making the changes that will provide you with a village of people who will love and support you for who you are now, and let them be there for you.
Thank you so much for listening! And until the next time, live passionately, vulnerably, and keep loving later life!
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