<i>I have lived two lives. One that was much more within society, where I worked in the community Monday to Friday, only really living at the weekends. For sure I had many moments of happiness, I loved the people I looked after, just not the people I worked for. </i>


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It was like this inner battle that went on inside of me. I so desperately, wanted to help the people I was caring for, and for a while I did. But in the end I realised that I was just keeping them reliant on the system, instead of really empowering them. And in the end, I was also disempowering myself. 

Living a life, that did not feel right to me. That did not make me happy. So I travelled some more and discovered that the less I had, the more happy I was. That the more I lived in harmony with nature, the truer, I was to myself. 

<i>I need to feel a part of the natural cycles, to embrace them and celebrate them. In doing so, I am also celebrating myself, celebrating life itself. </i>

We can make things very complicated for ourselves, when we possess too many things. Things that take over our lives and take our attention away from what really matters. From the connection we have with the earth, with ourselves and each other. 

There are choices that we make, that lead us to the life we want to live. We decide, whether or not we want to create our dreams, or continue to just sit with them. We can allow ourselves to become distracted or we can focus on what makes us happy. What empowers us. 


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I have said it already a few times on here, but I live a simple life, a life that makes me very happy. A life that has me living amongst nature, working with the land. A life where I am aware of the resources that I need and how to get them,  where I am on the road to being fully self sufficient.  

<b>This Rainbow Song, sums up nicely, where I find my joy and what makes me happy. </b>

>I find my joy in the simple things, that come from the earth.
I find my joy in the sun that shines and the river that sings to me.
Listen to the wind and listen to the water, hear what they say.
Singing hey yah hey yah hey yah hey yah hey yah hey yah ho X3
Oh never forget, never forget to give thanks,
Give thanks, give thanks, give thanks, and praise

And like I said,  it is a choice, it is very much mind over matter. Each day, we get to wake up and choose how we wish to start the day. I get to choose, what I let affect me or influence me. 

I am always open to receiving more of life's lessons and recognising how each challenge I face, is an opportunity to learn and grow. Remembering, to embrace them all. Even when they are painful, knowing full well, that I will be so much stronger coming out the other side. 
  

<b>When I am being true to myself, then I am being true to those around me as well.</b>

<i>This is my response to the latest Blog Ideas Of The Week, from the wonderful @theminimalist Community here on Hive. Where the focus is on Inner Peace And Happiness. I invite @revisesociology to get involved this week. </i>

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