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Don’t Save Your Life ‘Til Later
My mother told me when I was young to always save my good clothes for special occasions. In fact, when I was little she saved my fancy dresses for so long I often outgrew them! For years I did the same thing; I only wore ‘decent’ clothes when I was going somewhere important.
Lately I’ve been wearing all my clothes whenever I feel like it. Even my lovely Indian shalwar kameezes and silk sari wrap-around skirts. I just put some tights under them when I’m cold, which is fairly often here in my west coast oceanside community. Sure I still wear the shlumpadinka outfits sometimes, but I’m having fun dressing myself up.
I had a thought today while I was hanging my bright orange shirt on the clothesline:
- What if we save the best parts of our lives for later the way we save our best clothes?
Many of us put off our dreams for another day. We wait for the traveling, for the career we’ve always aspired to, the time with our kids, that move to the country…Perhaps we’re working ourselves up the ladder at our jobs, maybe we wan that larger home, the newest stuff.
But what if later never comes? What if, for whatever reasons we are not able to fulfill our dreams because we run out of time?
- Don’t wait until later – start today to challenge the limiting stories you tell yourself! The ones that stop you from making the changes.
I invite you to live your life fully today.
Great post Ellen! I couldn’t agree more. Follow your deams, try things that you have always wanted to try, it isn’t about success or failure it’s about just doing it.
Enjoy using the ‘good’ dishes, make your beautiful antique furniture a part of everyday life and as you say wear those special or expensive clothes.
We deserve to surround ourselves with beautiful things even if that means putting field daisys in a crystal vase.
hmmm i like this one cause i have a habit of keeping nice clothes too for some important day. But you are also true, they say make the most of your life…you will never know what comes tomorrow.
So if you love some1 show it dearly and honestly…cause you will never know… guess i have to remind myself with this one….
Jill: Thanks. Yes, let’s go for it…whatever it is!
Ellen
Hi M.: Yes, we often save it all – from clothes to dreams to our dear ones.
Warm regards
Elle