I remember the day I bought my iPod and was amazed that I could get all my music into one little gadget. Then came the day I bought my macBook which was a massive investment for me at the time. I could have easily bought another PC laptop for a fraction of the cost but the love affair I've been having with my macBook for the past few years has been priceless. This year I made the jump to an iPhone which is a brilliant piece of technology. It does more than I'm even aware of! Sometime this year an iPad will move into my home and heart. Thank you so much for sharing your creative genius Mr. Jobs! What an amazing gift you brought to us in your short life. May you rest in peace.
The word Cancer immediately brings to mind the word Death. The same as the word Birth brings to mind the word Life. Cancer is frightening no matter what kind or what the prognosis is. Somehow hearing that you have cancer is life altering. This past year there has been incredible changes for me. I no longer work like a dog, I work parttime and do what I love. I am a Kundalini Yoga teacher which allows me the gift of guiding people to reconnect to their soul and I'm a Massage Therapist of which I'm honoured to use my hands to envoke healing. I teach Healthy Breast which allows me to pass on Kundalini Yoga technology and naturopathic knowledge for Breast Cancer prevention and recovery. Its all so fulfilling! I also fell in love this past year. He has been my rock. I don't know what he saw in me while I couldn't get out my pjamas for months but he looked beyond and today we have a good life with lots of love and laughter.
I came across this quote from a speech Steve Jobs gave at Stanford University in 2005 and it seems very fitting for how I'm feeling about life today.
'No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.'
I recall a year ago as I was being anesthetized for the surgery I truly did not expect to wake up. I did wake up and since then the small things that would have bothered me in the past just don't anymore. Right now I have clothes strewen all over my bedroom floor, there is a fine line on the floor of my office between the papers that need to be filed and the ones that need to be tossed, there isn't a space left on my kitchen counter only because I just didn't feel like doing the dishes last night. But you know what? Who cares!! That stuff is secondary! It will all get picked up, sorted and tidied in time. There are other areas of life that needed to be lived today and writing this was one part of it!!
Thank you everyone worldwide for reading my blog over the past year. In one year my little blog has had close to 10,000 hits! That is amazing and so are all of you!! Stay strong and be happy, healthy and holy!! xo
PS ~ To my teacher Siri Singh Sahib Yogi Bhajan. I love you and I miss you with all my heart. Sat Siri Akal! We will meet again.....
What a beautiful post Laara! I'm grateful the dishes waited so you could share this :)
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