Are you a passionate person? I mean someone who lives, loves, works, does everything in excess. It’s less an art of living than a matter of character, because anyone isn’t able to live in this way: it depends on who they are deeply, what drives them happy, but also on that ability in living as they are, surely not in pretending to be someone else.
These people are amazing. Some of them drive fast, eat fast, travel fast (unfortunately!). To them, living is a matter of urgency; they think they must live each day in 400 percent… or more: excess means doing more, so as fast as they can. They feel alive in that way only.
But for others, living in excess means surexposed feelings and sensations. Their instinct is so big, so ready to make them happy that they barely are different from a wild animal. So the reason why they are so loved, is the fact they don’t try to simulate the taste of life: they really do like each second they live, they appreciate each new person they meet, each bite of life even, because it reminds them how they are alive. They’re aware of everything they feel, so they tend to reach the maximum joy in whatever they do.
It’s not easy to live along this kind of person, but you’ll not get bored as long as you’ll be staying close. Living in excess doesn’t hold any dead time, so your life will have a chance to be very enlightening however. So your lover will get you when you cry watching a movie, while actors are so good in a screenplay that it seems to be true… or when you laugh out loud without feeling yourself ashamed. An excessive person lives any emotions as a gift.
Look around you: how many people dare to be who they are?
Lots spend their time playing a role: they want to look like to someone else, stick a stereotype they think better than the person they are. Many women are starving all their life long, just to be able to fit any clothes on S size and look good along some fashion dictates. But the reality is different: trying to change your true nature is just a lie to yourself. If you’re a smiling person, keep smiling! And please, stop thinking you’re going to be seen as more intelligent if you don’t! Everyone gets their own nature, filled with some good and some bad. The aim is certainly to live as best as possible with it.
Living along your true nature helps also to be considered by others as someone who respects the person they are. No matter you’re not perfect (so who is?), you’ve got the right to be who you are. So if ever people at work think you’re different, be proud of it. You are who you are, no matter if you can’t be liked by everyone!
The strength of excessive people is to think they get the right to live as they are: they don’t look around to find any approval, they don’t try to cheat. They live as if today was their last day. This is the main reason they are so interesting: every single second, living is a big adventure. They don’t care small details that usually intoxicate people; they don’t lose their energy with it. They optimize it with a full time living.
So anyone can learn something from them: the right to be who they are. It doesn’t mean you can’t change things around you nor inside you to move on. It means you must be proud of who you are, of what your experiences have taught to you, to be able to create the life you’re made for.
Then it’s time to start: be aware of living each second as magic and single. Be grateful for each of them, good or bad, because you’re going to learn something about you, about life, about others. Be thankful to the Universe, which sends you angels and signs to help you on your path, to be connected with your inner you, so deeply true, beautiful and full of love. So feel this power as if it was the greatest purpose of your life.
Love,
Jane