A letter to myself

I have found myself listening a lot to Elizabeth Gilbert recently and I am a big fan of her place here on substack “Letters from Love”. Please go and find out more and get hooked on to it. Her compassion strikes me often and that would be not as a surprise at all, merely because that is the type of reminder I would like to look up to every single day. I am in awe of kind people with a mission to help all of us really to enjoy life. I loved her recent story and candid photos on how she has found her little cute dog through the help of her friend Suleika Jaouad, also a favourite writer and artist and whose letters can be enjoyed here on the same platform. “The Isolation Journal”

Letters from Love,Elizabeth Gilbert

The Isolation Journals, Suleika Jaouad

As far as I know myself, I have always felt that I should be connecting with the artists I admire. I feel that since I resonate with their work and that speaks to me that much, it is a must to thank them. I am glad that contemporary art is now accessible and available to most of us if you are lucky and living in a safe place. We can equally connect and celebrate their art in almost real time through podcasts, interviews, digital forms of publications and so on.I am truly so grateful to all these avenues we can take now to explore things that we love, to further study things that we love and deepen our knowledge or researches if we may feel attracted by it.

And standing by my words, I do send thank you letters. Once again here too - thank you Elizabeth. Thank you Suleika. If I could, I would deliver some roses myself too. Perhaps one day. Sooner I hope…..

I wanted to share a rather intimate letter I wrote to myself thinking from “Letters from Love” perspective and still somehow carrying Elizabeth’s gentle voice in my mind.

This is a letter my younger self .This is a letter to a young soul that might be a bit confused by possibilities, but also directions or distractions. This is a letter to a forever-young-soul who love authenticity and finds a hard time to maybe not stand strongly in that space at times just because …society. This is a letter of love and I would love to have this chat with anyone who might not feel enough or still caught up in the meanders of endless thoughts and pressure of life. Pressure to start a job, pressure to go to college, pressure to perform with excellence, pressure to make parents happy, pressure to earn a decent living independently, pressure to be on its own feet and do well. Do well.

This letter goes here raw, straight from my hand written notes. It is a heart-felt letter. It carries so much encouragement to offer to myself even today and always from now on.

1. Find guides and mentors to help you on your way. Do not do it alone.

2. You are as worthy as anyone else. No one is better or superior to you. No one should be on a pedestal of worth while you might not dare to get on the same pedestal.

3. It is OK to dream.

4. It is OK not to speak, just observe. Why do we have to have a story to tell. It is OK not to speak.

5. It is OK to feel vibrant in your own body.

6. It is OK to fail. It is OK also to fall and stand up again.

7. You are loved. Just look around to all your protectors, guardians, caregivers, and angels. The team is there and is strong. Either you know them well or not.

8. It is OK to time-travel and contemplate.

9. It is a superpower to be KIND.

10. Power is an illusion if it is a way to show superiority above another being.

11. You are your own mystical blend, your own alchemical formation and you can only transform, evolve ,adapt, flourish should you chose to. So chose transformation. It is always the time for it.

12. I love you dearly, at all times, through all the peaks and the valleys and the open seas and forests. Keep forging your own unique way.

I have been inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert also to keep a jar , a box of gratitude notes. I love connecting that way with my day, sometimes it might be an intention, sometimes a pause to offer thanks to honour everything and everyone who made my heart full. It is fascinating still to me what a small pause with purpose can do, how can it change the energy of the space, it becomes a blessing in itself. For myself taking this time to connect with goodness. For all receivers of my gratitude -I do wish the gentle waves of my notes might reach you as musical notes in your sweet dreams.

These rituals that make our day richer, that fill up an evening when perhaps we were just a bit depleted, that fill up the sky of a gorgeous Sunday… these rituals are here to be reinvented, paid forward, shared with others or just in your own solitude. These rituals are real to me. Are transformative in so many ways.

Here we are friends, on a gorgeous Sunday under a blue,blue sky and getting swept into a horizon of blues and greens.

Should you love taking notes, grab a pen and paper and write something meaningful to yourself today. To the one you were 5, 10, 20 years ago, which one would you like to send so much love today?

Be kind ….