Oprah is my (imaginary) Grandmother
I had been watching Oprah for a couple of months, especially Super Soul Sunday and Steep Your Soul. #amazing! The more I watched the more I wished I could have Oprah to sit next to me in a cool afternoon benchmark teaching me lessons about life.
It's probably because I never had the grandmother, mom, dad, or close mentor I could look up to to talk to me while I sat in their lap. So I researched books specifically written for older souls. I stumbled upon a good find.
A Book for the Old while You're Still Young
This book is amazing, especially for those who aren't in their midlife. It's kinda like having someone teach you what they regret doing and not doing. It tells you what to embrace now so that you can profit exponentially for when you do enter your midlife.
I see it as having the wisdom of a 40 or 50 year old while you're still 20. Imagine how beautiful, to be so mature and still have the vivacity of the young. Capturing the best of both worlds.
The author puts a spotlight on what you're experiencing and tells you what's happening to you. For example, the endless restlessness with identity crisis. The aching for that one person who'll be yours forever and trying to complete yourself with him. She tells you: it ain't gonna happen.
Stop Beating Your Compass
No one will save you but you, so stop waiting for the perfect man to complete you and the perfect job to sustain you. The only thing that's gonna sustain you is your damn effort to be the person you standard yourself to be. Right deep inside that subconscious mind of yours that you keep battering on the head to stop commenting on everything you do.
The truth is that voice is your own standards guiding you to be the person you wanna be. When you shut that person up and do what it tells you not to do, you become a hypocrite, a fake. No one and nothing is worth your authenticity.
That voice is a vibrating, high tech compass permanently glued to your heart guiding you. This was a gift given to you by God to show you the straight path. Keep stifling that compass and you'll stray to nasty woods leading you off a cliff. Deep down inside though, no matter how much you stifle that compass, you will always still hear it vibrating in your heart. Telling you what the right thing to do is, so listen and follow.
❤️Inspired by
The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife by Marianne Williamson
