Mahen’s Alphabet of Emotional Intelligence – L

The Next Letter

We started off the year sharing my father’s work, an alphabet he was working on at the time of his passing. At the end of 2024, we found his complete work and are releasing each letter throughout the year. This week, we share the next letter.

 

L – Life: Life is what you make it.

Life is fleeting, slipping away with incredible speed as we race through space at nineteen miles per second. Our most valuable asset today is life itself, the one thing we can truly call our own.

Life is both difficult and easy. It is our greed and ego that make it hard. This is a profound truth: once we truly see and accept it, we transcend it. When we understand and accept that life is difficult, it no longer feels difficult. Acceptance dissolves the struggle.

Life is simple. But our desires and unending wants make it complex.

Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate tapestry of moments that never return the same way. Regret is a heavy burden, weighing down the soul with missed opportunities and unsaid words. So, let’s not postpone anything. Seize each moment as it comes, with open hearts and outstretched arms, ready to embrace the possibilities before us. In the end, our regrets will not be about what we did, but about what we didn’t do—the words left unsaid, the dreams left unfulfilled.

Life is not always the way we want it to be. It is unpredictable and it continues to place problems as well as opportunities on our path, but it is always our choice to feel as a victim or to take control in every situation and learn with every step we take.  In life, don’t leave anything for later—the coffee gets cold, interest fades, day turns into night, we grow up, we grow old, and life goes by. Later, we might regret not doing something when we had the chance.

Do what we are good at and love to do. Live one day at a time, and finally, trust a higher power or Universal Law to help us in our life journey and give us some support along the way. The choice is ours how we live our lives.

Three things in Life – our health, our mission, and the people we love. That’s it.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.  We must try to love all of humanity with the inner awareness, consciousness, and conviction that inside each individual is the living presence of God.  –Sri Chinmoy

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. – Rumi

 

Stay Tuned for Letter M