If I could reinvent myself, would I? What would I change, if I could, if I was presented with the opportunity to? The latest EcoTrain Question, asks "What if a Genie Gave You the Chance To Reinvent Yourself? "
I have just got back from walking barefoot on the earth, the heat finally subsiding after a very hot day, my hands stained from picking mulberries off of, one of the tree’s on the land. Both my mind and my belly are very content.
I have often wrote about the way in which I live, choosing to live a more simpler off grid life, being my own boss, living in tune to my body’s natural rhythm and taking full responsibility for my life!
I play/live to the rhythm of my own drum, which lets face it, is the universal natural beat. I made a decision many years ago, to step out of the system and carve my own way and I have not looked back.
It has not always been easy, I have faced many challenges, but all of those challenges have made me into who I am today, helped me become who I am meant to be! For that very reason I don’t think I would change anything, because I know I am on the right path.
It doesn't get much better than this, mulberries just picked from the tree!
For sure my life would be a lot easier if I had some more money, a regular income, but how would that change me. Would I be presented with so many opportunities in which to be creative, in which to welcome more abundance into my life?
I have currently live amongst a community, that has been able to support me in exchange for the support that I have given the community. And this is what true community is about, supporting one another, looking after their own!
If I was living under different circumstances would I get to experience this?
Of course there are certain things I would like to know more about, mycology for one but that is also a subject I have been educating myself about, down through the years. I do feel ready to create a mushroom farm, especially once I move.
I would also love to improve my Spanish, but someone has just moved onto the land for the summer and guess what, he is Spanish so there is the opportunity I have been saying for. I live in an area which has a huge international community, most of the people speak English, so learning Spanish has not been easy. Not until now, that is!
Even in this heat, where at times I feel like I am melting, there is no where else I would rather be, no one else I would rather be. (Unless that someone lives next to the beach that is, lol.)
I have made many decisions in my life, I have let go of many things, many comforts, so that I can live this life, a life more connected with the land. I want to spend most of my time outdoors, to fully surrender to the extremes and the natural flow of this land. Because it is the connection to earth that I crave, that I desire.
There is no reinventing myself, only surrendering to who I have become and expressing my gratitude for all that I have received. I have no regrets, for sure I have made mistakes, but those mistakes were opportunities to learn and grow and so I chose that path!
So if a genie magically appeared and granted me the opportunity to change, the opportunity to have whatever I wanted, I would wish only to remain on this path, to continue to empower myself and my children. Plus one small thing, the ability to transport myself and my girls to the beach whenever we so desire.
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