The Lush Life

A thought had been forming in my head for some time, or maybe it is more like an idea or mantra. You should live your life lushly, decadently, and with no regrets. You see, there is this idealized me that I see in my head. The idealized me does not procrastinate. She makes conscious decisions about what she eats. She is honest in her communications and speaks with integrity while being conscious of other people's right to do the same. She makes her needs a priority so that she doesn't burn out. She exercises and drinks lots of water. The more I thought about idealized me the more I began to think, These aren't impossible standards, this is doable. That thought, that one word, doable, is what lead me to The Lush Life.

To my way of thinking, the Lush Life is living your life in a way that shows you without any doubt that you love you. Or I love me... there is love here. If I'm living my life lushly I am not making excuses for mediocrity and I know mediocrity, enough to get by has been a setting that my life has been on for some time. There are things in our lives that we cannot change, circumstances by which providence, fate, or just dumb luck cause us to have to work through. There is nothing we can do in those cases but choose our response and act accordingly. Conversely, there are things about ourselves, about our soul and our spirit that we can do everything about. We can craft our lives and set our hearts toward the light of self discovery and self care. We can teach ourselves how to love our bodies no matter our current shape. We can learn to love our flaws and accept our vulnerabilities. All of this, all of this acceptance and care and love, this is living lushly. I'm committed to this journey. Years and years of self doubt, defeatist self talk and bad decisions don't just disappear. We are where we are usually because of the choices we make. So if we want to move, it stands to reason that we should make another choice!

I'm committed to living out this journey, and I do hope you'll go with me. If not, I'll continue to wail away in my little corner of the internet believing that in the end, even if I walk alone, I've not walked in vain. That's the good stuff and it is beautiful.

Viva la Dolce Vita!

Come with me, and let us be great together.