One Year Left to Live
One year left to live, what would you do? Where would you go? What would be important to you, and how would you spend your precious time left on earth? With friends and family or travelling to the places you have always wished to visit? Would you buy the fastest car your savings could buy and drive on the Autobahn or would you drink yourself into oblivion? All viable options but what if you weren’t dying? Shouldn’t we live each day as if it were our last? Why not live your best life now, instead of waiting for that pivotal tragedy that awakens you from the day-to-day grind. Our auto pilot existence, where comfort and security are the bottom line of our needs, yet we ask little more from our selves.
Heaven forbid we move slightly out of our comfort zone into uncomfortable change. The question is, “Is this your life?” I know it is, but is it really your dream life you couldn’t wait to get to? Maybe you are stuck in a job you dislike, or a marriage that doesn’t fit or debt you can’t manage. Match your life with your true passion and everything else falls into place.
These thoughts prompted our family into the next Hamori family adventure!
Yes we have a beautiful life. Canada is a wonderful place to live with good health care. Money is not a problem. It steadily comes in, and we steadily pay our bills. The difference for us came when the money grew and our bills never did. This allowed me to stay home with the kids for many years. Then life started to be about what mattered to me. The causes I fight for, the people I surround myself with and personal growth. With me home, Alfonz (my husband) didn’t have to share in the day-to-day stuff. He started to get more and more successful and he had a soft place to fall at the end of each stressful day. But this is not just my life to live on the back of my husband, who comes home exhausted. It’s his life too. And why wouldn’t he deserve the same luxury of self-growth he allows for me.
I am not saying that staying home is a piece of cake, and that I don’t work my tail off cooking homemade meals each day, or growing a bio-intensive organic garden for my family to eat from, or teach my kids to read and write, and all the things life as a parent entails.
What I realized was being a parent was in fact my true self. Being home with my babies was my life’s ambition. And I felt a huge reward having the time to figure that out. When I found my groove, all the elements in my life started to jive. Aside from being a mom I found a passion for Montessori Education, volunteered at the children’s school, started a block watch in our community and began to blog. My circle of friends grew around me with people I love and respect, people I truly learn from. So I wasn’t idle eating bonbons watching soaps, I was my husband’s equal partner and my true self.
As such I worked 100% of the time to the best of my ability. People seem to work harder at the things they love. But how can we do the same for Alfonz?
Solution: A Year of travel through Europe, in hopes to find a home in South France with a ‘Gite’ or B&B. Buy it, run it and continue our family adventures.
Stay tuned for the next chapter in our adventure!
Eva Hamori Blogs her families European adventures at www.thatshamori.com
