While sitting at the table and quietly enjoying my cup of green tea I experienced a wonderful insight. I actually felt this insight with every cell of my body, it shook my whole being and opened my eyes and heart to wider perspective and understanding of life.
What does it mean to truly living life to the fullest? Many of us tend to say, “yes, it is easier said than done”, “yes, if I did not have family and three kids, I could also live life to the fullest” or “if I were healthy, then I could think of living life to the fullest”, and so on. However, the truth I understood at that very moment was much simpler than I thought before.
Based on my insight, to live life to the fullest meant to truly feel it – to live all the emotions, all the feelings, all the joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, success and failure, satisfaction and disappointment…to its depths. Not to run from it, but to live it, to feel it, to experience it, to breathe it, to literally become it, in other words, to be fully present in the given moment.
I was thinking that if I truly lived every emotion, every feeling to the fullest without a single hesitation as it comes, as it is and not denying its existence, then I could really say I lived my Life. I also got this thought that if I lived my life to its fullest, then within the short span of my life I could live all the feelings, emotions I came to live here and that way exhaust my karmas and perhaps would never come back to this physical plane ever again. Yes, this thought of reincarnation did arise to me with this insight. Perhaps the reason why we keep coming back to this human life, in other words, reincarnating, it is because in the life we are given now we somehow fail to experience it all as it comes, as it is due to certain social conditioning, so-called modesty, past stories, hesitation, denial, cultural codes and beliefs,.. and so many lives are needed in order to complete the journey.
So therefore, after feeling my insight (yes, I call it feeling and not thinking), I have thought to myself: ‘And why not? What do I have to lose? What does restraining myself give to me? Why should I be afraid? What should I be ashamed of?’. And based on that I chose again, but this time with clear understanding, to become even more aware of the present moment and just live in that moment without questioning it, without trying to see the future, without asking when, where, who, what, how, especially that How thing :-) Just living Life as it comes, as it feels, as it is. Just truly feeling it.
That’s what I consider to truly living life to the fullest.
~Jolita Kelias
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