#reginaroeder

Being back in Europe made me wonder about how heavy people are going through life, almost as it was a burden. This challenge filled with worries about the future, creating anxiety about what will be. I wondered where this lightness had gone? This excitement about life and all its wonders. Suffering stems not from the events in our lives but our judgement about them - Epictetus Although written so many decades ago this statement is more than true in our modern day society. We cannot always have control about the events happening to us but about how we approach things while practising self control and avoiding emotional extremes. Although we are heroes in desiring things, we should make ourselves aware that there is no ideal state nor world but the present and how we deal with it, while seeing everything we own as borrowed and one day we have to give it back to the universe. 

Thanks my wonderful friends for still being with me ❤️ I needed a break from what has happened and truly focus on myself. The past couple of weeks have been an intense confrontation of life, death and emotions. Thoughts of emptiness and failure crossed my mind, so did freedom and happiness. On my journey I realized that emotions are not there to be judged but to be understood, this way we eliminate fear and find the courage to let go. The past has powerful effects on the self and this is why it is important to see a purpose in everything that is happening to us in the present to discover mindfulness and freedom, freedom from pain. Once we learn to forgive and accept  ourselves we love more deeply in a way as it should be ~ let's continue this journey together 💛