THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | October 9th 2025 No. 933

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

I'm not prone to quoting people but, today, I want to refer to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's words "Life is Real! Life is Easnest! And the grave is not its goal".

 

Everyday life is real - whatever we have to do, we must do and do it like we mean it, regardless of the perceived unfairness or difficulty, regardless of what our thinking minds might have to add to potentially already challenging situations.

 

Everyday life is real - only in the here and now. We tend to cloud our understanding of the moment by allowing our thinking mind judge it.

 

And, of course, the purpose of living every moment of our everyday life like we mean it is... to live this life of ours to the full. Here and now. In fact, not only is here and now the only thing of which we are certain, here and now is the only place and time in which we can be to live our lives like we mean it.

 

If and when we immerse ourselves in the wonder, joy and beauty of the here and now, we will create for ourselves what might best be described as our own personal "Blue Zone" - something to which I refer in this week's video.

 

The reference relates to the Netflix series "The Secrets of the Blue Zones" - a documentary exploration of areas in the world were people are living full and active lives well beyond normal expectations. Indeed, every time that I refer to "Blue Zones", the image of a 101yrs old cowboy on horseback rounding up cattle springs to mind!

 

The key point that I would make this morning, though, is that Blue Zones are, to my mind, more about a state of mind than place or location. More about that next week.