Are You Afraid to Live?
“Something
is always happening to you,” a former friend said years ago. She had just
learned of the death of one of my children and not knowing what to say, she
said that.
I smiled and
looked directly into her eyes. I wanted her to feel the words that I was about to say.
“The bigger the life, the bigger the
pain.” I told her, “but with much life, comes much joy also.”
This past
week, I had the opportunity to speak to the women of Aspire. These women are a
part of the workforce at Medtronic. The room was filled with folks who are extremely
smart, beautiful and compassionate about their life and work. (Medtronic)
What they
admitted out loud to themselves and to one another was the fact that we can all
be more confident.
With a goal
to contribute to the wellfare of humankind, these women understood that they had to
be the change the world needed to see.
I began to
think of my own bold life and how incredibly big it is. As I did, the words of a
character from one of my novels spoke to me clearly; “If you ain’t dead, you ain’t done.”
I decided
that I could live even more and be much better.
The decision to do so required three
things, faith, courage and bravery.
Are you
living, or are you merely existing?
Are you
afraid to step out of the comfort of your comfortable life to teach what you
know to someone else?
Will you be
willing to love someone so much that the loss of the loved one is too much to
bear?
Are you willing
to read from a new play book, even at this stage of your game?
Can you appreciate all
that you are becoming and tell yourself “well done?”
Be you, be well, be
living.
Bertice Berry, PhD.
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