We lost someone in our family some years ago.
An amazing man.
Before he passed, something happened.
Something inside his being shifted. And I will be forever grateful for the time I had in his presence in those final days.
He knew he had a matter of days left, yet he smiled up at us with no fear and beamed to the brim with the essence of true love. He was encapsulating. His presence overflowed out of him and touched everyone.
He told everyone how he felt about them, he asked for forgiveness, he asked for love and he spread love and joy with anyone that he came into contact with. It exuded out of him.
He dropped every last bit of his ego.
He gave love unconditionally and unfiltered, just like a child does.
‘Love each other,’ he said. ‘We are all searching for things outside of ourselves. It’s not out there. It’s in here,’ he said, pointing to his third eye.
Woah. I had forgotten that I’m a mortal being. I had forgotten that I don’t have forever and a day. I had forgotten that I had been given the gift of life.
And in his presence, something shifted inside me.
‘When was I going to stop living life like I was never going to die?’ (A question that Steve Chandler asked a client once. A question that I came across just days after my uncle passed).
The answer for me was: right now.
And since that day, I’ve seen my entire world differently. I’ve experienced it differently. Things that used to get me down and stress me out, are fun and exciting now.
Yet, my external world hasn’t changed.
So what has changed?
My internal world has. My perception has. And so my experience of my world is different.
So I’ll ask you the most powerful question I’ve heard in a while:
‘When are you going to stop living life like you’re never going to die?’
