I have a Millennial friend who keeps asking the rhetorical question: ‘What am I supposed to do now?’ Today I can smile and tell him all will be fine, because I was once in that place.
As an Xennial, growing up in the nineties, I believed life was linear: you earn a living, you raise a family and then you die. But in the fast changing world after the Millennium, I soon realized my life was gonna be far from linear.
A series of life events around my 30th birthday changed the course of my life forever. So, I went on a quest for some answers. My spiritual awakening had begun. And I’m not talking about advice from my Boomer parents or the many therapists, coaches and psychologists I saw over the years, while in recovery of my Bipolar Disorder (which in itself caused ups and downs). I’m talking about a deeper understanding of life on earth through the eyes of Lao Tzu who already talked about ‘flow’, Nikola Tesla who claimed through energy, frequency and vibration we can find the secrets of the Universe and the Maya’s who calculated the 2012 winter solstice would be the end of a 26,000 year era and the beginning of a new one. There clearly is an order in life, or in our Universe.
At first the insights I gained were mind boggling to me. But now that my 43rd birthday and my seventh chakra lifecycle is approaching I have come to understand life truly is like a set of waves, just like the electromagnetic waves that create the heartbeat for the planet (ever heard of the Schumann resonances?). Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down. You might have plans for this life, but God has a bigger plan for all of us. ‘Seven years of plenty, seven years of famine’, like they say in the Bible, right?
My quest to the rest of my life took me about two lifecycles, or fourteen years, but I don’t think that’s necessary for everyone. So, to be of guidance to the next generation, I wrote down how I came to understand ‘The Surf of Life’. Who knows, maybe I can teach a few Millennials how to ride the waves of life and support them during their quest to the rest of their lives.
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The Surf of Life 