“Nothing matters and what if it did,” is a very powerful sentence. It’s all about living your best life according to you! Feeling like nothing matters allows you the space to wake up each day and be happy and find joy in everything you have and do. With each task or item, asking yourself does it make you smile, not because it affects other people, but because of how it affects you. We can all live our best life, when we are doing it not for the exterior world, but for ourselves.
1) As a film director this best life could be the quality of the films I direct, the cast I put in roles, the studio I’m working with, where my films are distributed OR it could be how much fun I had making the movie
2) As a mum my best life could be having a child that has amazing grades at school and has been accepted into the right university OR having a child that smiles and asks me for cuddles every morning even at aged 18!
3) As a single woman my best life could be being slender, fit, happy, intelligent, easy-going OR being able to do whatever I want, whenever I want to!
4) As a friend my best life could be being available, treating people kindly, being a shoulder to cry on OR saying come on let’s go have some fun!
There are so many articles in magazines telling us HOW to live our best life. What if according to us our best life looks different? My ex-husband commented the other day on how he felt sad that our daughter hadn’t lived the conventional life he would have wanted for her. Who is to say which version of her life is the “best” one? Through the years she has always told me she was happy and felt joy.
What if we say no to the convention of living our best life as society deems fit?
The other day I asked my daughter (an actress and a singer) if she wanted to be like a friend of hers and have her incredible pop star lifestyle that has suddenly skyrocketed to stardom. The look of fear and then laughter on her face showed me that even I sometimes can get it wrong. Her best life is sitting playing her guitar to a small crowd at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, not to an audience at arenas. Who am I to question what her best life might be?
I’m not going to tell you what your best life looks like. Only you know.
My best life is waking up on the boat I live on, writing these words, and getting one person to say, “That article has made me think in a different way.” It is sitting in my VW bus, looking at the sunset and hugging my dog. You are allowed to change your ideas. Your best life, your concept, your lifestyle – you can pivot at any stage, any point in time. Don’t worry about it, remember “nothing matters and what if it did”.
Let’s be brave. Let’s make the decision each day to live our best life, BUT whatever you do, live your best life for you.
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