Nov
23

Is There One Right Way to Live?

By Leah

An extremely common pre-packaged belief is that there is a right way and a wrong way to live. It‘s thought that all people should discover this and agree upon it, and then that right way of living should be enforced.

What the F@#*%?

This idea is crazy for a number of reasons. The biggest being that we are all different, and what makes you happy and is the right way for you to live, might feel completely wrong to me.

But we do continue to force our ideas onto each other. This happens on so many different levels.
Religion is the first to come to mind.

Different countries have different ideas about the best way to run things.
You can see this same thing happening in the different states as they work through ideas about gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana.

Growing up, children are impacted by their parent’s ideas about how to raise them and how they should live. How they should dress, and speak and behave. Factor in the school system and your culture and there are lots of rules and expectations around what RIGHT LIVING looks like.

This is the main reason why there are so many people who feel like freaks and outsiders in this world. They are living their lives according to someone else’s ideas about what right living looks like. When you try to cram yourself into something that is not designed with you in mind, it feels yucky.

Is there one right way to live?

NO WAY!

There are as many ways to live as there are people. It would benefit us all to embrace that idea and live it.

I want you to think about this for a minute.

What does your ‘right way’ to live look like ?

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