Living your best life

Once one realises that they have seen the darkness and want to see the light it is up to you as an individual person to realise your own potential. To realise where you want to be in your life and how to make your place in the world. We all have opportunities to be the best we can be and to live our own best life.
You have to decide what your 'best life' entails.
For me I want to be the best person I can be. This to me doesn't mean monetary success. This to me means being a kind, empathetic, giving, loving person. I want all who meet me and know me to be drawn to the fact that I am loving and forgiving.
Once upon a time I held the opinion and stance to 'never forgive and never forget'. That was until a point came in my life where I had to choose whether or not to live up to that expectation and cut someone out of my life who had taken the wrong path. Or whether I rise above that belief and forgive and empathise with this persons wrong choices.
As this person was someone quite close to me, the thought of losing my relationship with them was not an option. I truly believe that this event happened to teach me the value of forgiveness. To teach me to look outside my own feelings and to delve into the feelings of others. To empathise and to forgive.
So that is what I did. I am so glad I made that choice.
Living my best life also entails a love of nature and the environment and a respect of all living things. One that encourages me to teach this respect to my children.
It also entails being kind to others. Offering money to the homeless and not judging why they are where they are.
Of enjoying to give more than I recieve and to make the world a better place for those less fortunate.
I truly believe that when I go to bed at night I hope I have made a difference to someone on that one day. It doesn't have to be a big thing, something small and simple like smiling at a stranger in the street and making them smile back.
So my dear friends are you living your best life?
What do you think would help you to live your best life?
I look forward to hearing your stories :)