We want to do it all for everyone.
Help.
Advise.
Sort things out.
Live.
It can’t be done.
When we focus only on ourselves
and our Family –
it turns out there is so much work to do
that there is no time left for the neighbours 🙂
(Sending our regards! 🙂 )
Even though everyone is wonderful.
Dear to us.
And of course, we have to help…
The oxygen mask is for You
and Your Child
and Your Life Partner.
When you begin, every day,
to live and breathe consciously:
See – Stop – Change
When you begin to observe,
catch and change –
what harms You and Your Family,
– the Family You created –
it turns out there is so much “work” to do
that… there is no time for others.
You can be there.
You can love them deeply.
Offer advice – when someone asks.
But… You are One person.
Your strength is limited.
Your resources are limited.
Even kindness runs out
when your boundaries keep being crossed.
The oxygen mask is for You first.
Then for Your Child
and Your Life Partner.
Why is this so important?
Because they – just like me –
have their needs.
They have their wounds.
They have their desires.
I can’t be everywhere,
because then, quite simply, I am nowhere.
Once again, I choose
– where my attention goes.
How I choose
– so that something from my needs and theirs –
can be met,
held, seen and lived through.
This I can do.
If I focus.
If I have my priorities set,
and set, after all, on myself and my Family.
Because I do not have more strength than I have 🙂
One Life – One Family
That is already so much daily work 🙂
Because what does it mean that I begin to live more consciously?
I live with presence.
I notice.
I stop.
I sort things out.
I change.
I can’t do it for everyone.
The further I go, the more I realise
that I also feel this great sadness of mine –
that I can’t do it for everyone.
I can only inspire.
But everyone makes their own decision.
And everyone can take into their own hands
their own responsibility.
Because truly live — we can only for ourselves.
Only that much.
Or as much as that.
Responsibility.
