As I move forward, I continue to make corrections in my path to use music to stop illness and help others. While providing music at nursing homes, I realized that life is such a gift. Choosing your path starts at any time in you life and we can always adjust. I’m becoming more away of the quality of life not only what we each have, AND also that we can choose to make changes even in our 50’s and 60’s.
I want to make my life the best quality I can and when I drop dead, I’ve lived. Being around old people, it occurred to me that they live according to what they have seen–the people in their lives who aged in a certain way–accepting that as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
It occurred to me as I think about my mom who is now 87 and seems disinterested in many things. Her world is shrinking day by day around her as she sits in her chair.
That’s how I remember my grandmother (her mom) when we’d stop in for a visit. Invariably she’d be sitting in her chair in the living room watching the world go by and now I see my mom doing the same thing. She’s following the model she knows.
I don’t want to be like that, I’m re-defining my model. I want activity, mobility and opening up my emotional past and dealing with it, cleaning it up. Over the past few years I’ve been learning more about myself and the emotional baggage that I’ve been carrying all my life. I can choose to do something before things build up and bite me in the butt.
How about you? What choices are you making or not making today?