Hoping that THIS run will be the final one that leads you to happiness at the end of the tunnel … Really ?

We all know the situations: we sometimes run through our day, we are stressed, worn out, drained, tired, sad and we don’t have time.. There are unlimited reasons for that, we always find an excuse.

Now let me ask you something, where exactly are you running to? What do you think there will be at the end of the tunnel? The final relief? Happiness? Peace and inner freedom?

Trying to accommodate your friends, partner, family ? Trying to do what society expects you to do? Running for the next professional success, bonus? We need to pay our bills in the end of the day, I understand. We can buy the dream-flat, the dream-car, go to the dream-ski resort, pay the dream-school for our children.. You may want to replace the word dream by perfect, great, very well respected …

So, and then let me ask you further questions. When you have made it to the perfect house in the poshest place in town, when your children are in “the best school” of the country, when your 3rd car is standing in your garage, do you stop running? Are you finally at the end of the tunnel?

Did you reach happiness? Freedom? Or is there still fear? Fear to not have enough, fear to not be able to go to the 5* hotel next year because the crisis hit in. What do I do if the bonus is not how I expected? Then the call from a family member, who needs your help..

When is YOUR end of the tunnel then? Pushed further away again? Or is there one at all?

What if I told you, that happiness is within? That it is always with you, you carry love in your heart. You run and run, but actually you have always been with it. You simply forgot. You forgot to stop. To breathe. There is no next moment. There is only the NOW. The moment you are in right now. In the next second it will belong to the past. So what did you do with your NOW? Thinking of the Future? Thinking of being a quick enough runner?

What does this mean? That you forgot the NOW, the joy of the present moment because YOU and only YOU decided that happiness can wait until tomorrow.

Are we sometimes not running away from ourselves, behind something we believe will bring us freedom?

What about the present then? What about your child who just wants to have supper with you and enjoy your love? Too stressed? “It will be for tomorrow evening, after all I do it, so that Junior has a good future” Really? And what about Junior’s happiness NOW?

More important: WHAT ABOUT YOU NOW?

We can only give love, if we love ourselves. Do you love yourself? Are you feeling good with yourself? ARE YOU HAPPY? NOW, not tomorrow, not next week after the big presentation. We don’t know if we are still alive in 5min from now.

So again, ask yourself why are you running like a headless chicken. Do you want your life to be a single competition?

You might accumulate goods, money, be able to go to the restaurant. Do you enjoy this at least? Do you then share compassion and the well deserved moment of Peace? Or are you then trying really hard to enjoy and as soon as Junior, a family member, a friend says something, that endangers your moment foreseen in your agenda saying “HAPPINESS”, well you go back to fear and react sometimes with anger, tiredness… “It’s mum’s moment now. I work so hard to pay for your vacation, so please give me some peace ! NOW !”

How can anybody give you peace, if you don’t allow to give it to yourself?

This is a never ending story, a vicious circle. But you can step out of it. Or you decide to run the circle all over again. Because there will always be something outside. You can master all these challenges by taking the strength you carry within and make you living your daily life, jumping over obstacles with lightness if only YOU want it be like that. It is not waiting at the end of the tunnel, at the end of the divorce, at the end of the hard business week. No, it is at your doorsteps, but as you are so busy, you overlook it and just run…

We all know that sometimes we are overtaken with the challenges of daily life. We freak out. That’s how sometimes things are. It is up to you, to say STOP. It is nobody else’s responsibility or fault or words that will make you happy or unhappy. You are the one who holds the key in your hands.

Take the key, go within. Open the door to your heart and enjoy your happiness, your love and peace. It is overwhelming and you will be more than happy to share this.

Life is short.

You make your life livable or not.

You choose.

Are you ready to take back responsibility for yourself?

Are you ready to finally meet yourself?

Are you ready to remember who you are for real and why you are here for?

ARE YOU?

Then BE.

Enjoy the life that you create for yourself.

Sometimes it is maybe not the way you expect it to be. But by connecting the dots of the past, if you are very honest to yourself and look at it from the heart, then you might admit, that all was always for a good reason. No matter how “dreadful” or “unfair” or “sad” you felt it was at the very moment.

Love and freedom knock at your door every day, every second, every heartbeat. Open the door and welcome them.

Caro / ecs73