define "living life to the fullest"

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sultana
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1/08/2007 11:14:57 PM

I don't think that statement "living life to the fullest" would give anyone the slightest clue to it's meaning. I never though of the vagueness in that statement.

Well, i recently underwent this amazing 3 days workshop which allowed me to see my world in such clarity as though i was wearing a blue tainted glasses and looking through my world in that colour all this while. ( i recommend this workshop to everyone... like everyone. no one is to young or old for it )

Anyways, i now have the understanding that living life to it's fullest is like playing in a sport, being in the field or a court and playing it fully, without holding back. Doing the things that you have always wanted to do. Like for example how fully expressed young kids are. They are not afraid of anything, they are just doing their thing and having fun. taking mum's lipstick and drawing on the wall for example or tearing the pages of your story book to pieces. ( not like i recommend any of you to start doing this :P)

As we grow older , we tend to be resigned, shrinking our world smaller and smaller. Like oh no, i can't get that kinda job because of blah blah...or oh noo, i have to be a doctor even though i don;t want to, coz my parents want me to. Or, i can't open up that business i wanted to because of my wife and kids..etc etc..the list goes on..

Feeling resigned or fear of failure is one of the many things that only allow many people to watch life goes by while only some people 'play certain areas of the game of life' and others to just ignore it altogether, coz of fear, and they say to themselves, "that how life is."

Another classic things that allow people not to live life fully is trying to look good and not being authentic about who they are. I mean we are human beings afterall..i too at some level would be doing the same thing. Looking good in a shallow level can be what you wear, what house you have, what job u have..or it can be about what people will say about you if you do or not do a certain thing, like getting married,having kids or finding that job, school, or buying that house, having friends..blah blah....all for other people not to think bad about you.

well, i think as humans, we are wired to be resigned, looking good and not be authentic to ourself.

Like a simple example, i find it difficult to say "no" to something which i really don't like or want. like after a while i tend to say 'yes' just to shut the other person up, or to be flexible and reasonable. But as soon as i realise that i have been doing that all my life ( coz after i said the yes i would feel so crap going through it ) Since what i really wanted was no. so it's no point for me to sacrifice my values for someone else coz i will feel really horrible after the whole thing. You know there are some things that are in your core values that you just can't trade or erase, and when u do...you feel like you are just selling yourself.

well anyway, living life to the fullest, means to live life powerfully and amazingly. The life which touch move and inspire yourself and others. A life which benefits others and will makes a difference to others. A life which is worthy of your life. :D