When I started moving forward and rebuilding my life there was a saying I would often tell myself; ‘life isn’t meant to be lived from the sidelines’. I would tell myself this when I go an invitation, had the opportunity to try something new or was faced with the decision to swim or watch from a chair on the beach. I adopted this saying because I hadn’t been living, I had been watching. I had trapped myself in a place of unhappiness living among my own false expectations of what a relationship should look like and how I should behave while I was in it. Once I was free from that trap life got so much richer.
I’ve recently brought this saying back. Life doesn’t just knock you down once and while I’ve been picking myself up again, I’ve found myself hesitating about new opportunities and been afraid to take chances. But life doesn’t come with guarantees and no one knows what tomorrow holds. Do you want to live life? Or watch it?