How many of us care about the quality of the time we spend each day, and who we are spending time with? How many of us care about making sure our loved ones feel our love? Are we being appreciative of the love that is shared with us? Do we care about how we move in the world, knowing that we have to go to sleep with and awake each day with ourselves. How many of us care about what we are leaving behind for our own future generations?
How important is being known? Does it mean that we are ambivalent about meeting new people or making new connections if it isn’t our focus? It is truly okay if our energy and time is not focused on how many people know us? Oftentimes our world is very small and that feels right. When connection is made and people come, or when our spirit does not connect with another’s, it can be counted as grace. Do we measure our worthiness around who we know or who knows us?
Is it our focus to have a “successful” business in order to feel value in what we give of our time and energy? What does success mean to us? Is success measured by how much our bank account increases or how popular we become? Is our drive to work felt in how effective we are in providing service and support? Will we refuse to lose sight of the importance of walking away from someone, another human, knowing that they have been helped and supported by us?
How often do we take on what others expect of us based on their ideas of us? People will always have their opinions on what we should be doing, what we should be focused on, what we can improve on, how we should feel about something. Are we learning to be motivated by spirit and truth, and not the expectations of others? Have we learned to trust our own intuition, our Egbe, in Ifa and our own personal destiny? Can we truly learn to honor our walk on the path we chose before coming to this earthly realm with our shoulders back, heads high, and with a smile on our faces?
These are the questions that dance in my mind on a lazy Saturday afternoon.
Ifayinka 