I am Blessed

Hi… it’s been a long time since I’ve written and a lot has happened in my life. The last time I left you (April 2019), I had just quit my 9-5 job and was heading off to Maui to live with my partner at the time on a farm. While at the time it was tough, the relationship ended up faltering and after a few months, I ended up on an expedition across the world. Thereafter I found myself in India for almost an entire year. Now here I am back in Connecticut on the east coast of the US, visiting family for the time being. And while it was so difficult for me to leave India after such a transformative, intense year… here we are. It’s not necessarily where I prefer to be… but I don’t seem to have a choice at the moment. My dharma has led me here and I’m just following where I am called.

As I sit here listening to a song by The Hanumen called I Love You (video link below), I’m finding myself welling up in tears thinking of all I have to be grateful for. The ups, the downs, the highs, the lows. All of it. Life is difficult, oh so difficult at times (I plan to elaborate more on this later). But yet we are each here on this sacred planet earth for a reason. Each and every high and low happens for a reason. I have processed so many difficult periods since this journey began, and while each low is extremely difficult while I’m gripped by the ego wallowing in the pain… I always emerge stronger. Life is a constant stream of highs and lows… we have to embrace everything, love everything that happens to us. We may not know the reason for the pain at the time, but there is one. The reason is larger than our small selves. And we must trust that the reason will be known later on. Trust in the highest good of all. Trust in whatever higher power you believe in or don’t believe in. But trust that it’s all perfect as it is. Because it is.

I am blessed. You are blessed. We are all blessed to be living in this world right now. We don’t know when our time on the physical plane will end (hell, I just almost choked to death on a piece of bread from my eggplant parm). So love it all. Appreciate it all. Despite the ups and downs, highs and lows. You may not know the reason for any of it right now. The difficult periods suck. But there is a reason… and it will be shared with you at a later date.

Love yourself. Love life. Be grateful for all that you have. Because life is short. Live it.

Much love to you now and always,

Shanti

*cover photo taken in September 2019 on the Yamuna River in Vrindavan, India.