So last blog (don't look at the date...it's been a while) I talked about my mission on Earth, and living every moment fully, blah blah blah...

Tonight while talking with a friend from India, she mentioned on her last trip how she met with an astrologist. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of an Indian astrologist, they are not like the crackpots you see on late-night TV. They are serious practitioners who look at the signs of the sun and the signs of the moon, based on the exact date and time you were born, and can tell your life as it was, as it is, and as it will be. In India, they are highly-respected religious analysts, who are called upon to advise for every occasion...even to analyze the success or failure of real estate (newly purchased house, purchase under consideration, etc.). They can even determine if your family has been cursed somehow, and how long it will follow your family, the generations the curse will skip, and prayers you can say or rituals you can perform to lessen the impact of the curse.

All sound like hocus-pocus? Not according to my friend. According to my friend, these folks hit the mark with a high percentage of accuracy. That's impressive that they can provide an analysis based solely on your birth date, birth time, and location.

During this conversation about her 'analysis', she suggested that she put him in touch with me...just from a curiosity perspective. I thought, sure, why not. I'm only somewhat superstitious and very curious about many things. So, again...why NOT? But then, I started thinking what if he tells me something or somethings very negative...things I don't want to hear. Or worse yet, what if i lie about my birth date, time, and location? Will it impact my life negatively? Or could it even impact someone else's life negatively? What it by providing invalid data I actually caused something awful to happen to someone who actually had that birth date, time, and location?

Always looking for an inspirational topic to write on, I thought this could be a good book idea. Maybe. Maybe not. More to come on this...in the meantime, here's a link for your own research.

- m

My mission on Earth

'Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.'- Richard Bach

My mission is definitely not finished. Oh no, in some ways it has only just begun! As I get older, I begin to understand the importance of living each day as if it were the last one. With so many things yet to do and see in my lifetime I'm not sure I'm going to accomplish it all. I've heard people with children say that when you have children, you are suddenly aware of your mortality. I think that holds true for anyone who finds meaning in their life, or has been granted something or someone meaningful. It's easy to lose sight of the 'mission' and take each day for granted when you are young, and even easier to be tempted to wish for life to move faster when things aren't going so well or when we have an event in the future to look forward to. Each day I find myself saying more and more 'If I only new then what I know now...'

But what if I did? Would I have want to change anything, or would I leave it as is? You see, by using that knowledge and changing my life events, my life would be different. I would be different. I don't think I want that. For the time I have potentially wasted or wished away, I was becoming me. For the pain I experienced, and the bad decisions I made molded who I am now, and I like me.

Left with less time to meet all my directives of my mission, I can use my past pain, experiences, and decisions to stop wasting and wishing my life away and instead live every blissful, happy, painful, learning, and challenging moment as if someone was going to steal each one away from me if I didn't protect it and own it.

- m