After my morning swim in the sea at Seaford, which was so nourishing and envigorating, as always, we went to the beautiful little village Rottingdean by the sea.
After a lovely tea and food at Shane’s Kitchen, we wandered around Kipling’s gardens and then took a stroll around the graveyard of the beautiful Norman church.
I felt quite emotional reading the lovely and wonderful tributes on the remembrance plaques and the gravestones. It was a gentle reminder that all things are temporary including our own journey.
We have a limited and unknown number of moments here in our current carnation and having read many of the loving tributes, I thought to myself, firstly, never waste a moment to show love to others that are still here. We often wait for funerals to say the things that we wanted to say about that person who has died but didn’t while they were alive or we do not say them often enough. We didn’t show the person when they were able to hear our loving words or receive our love through our actions, gestures and care towards them.
Secondly, it struck me that now is the only moment that we are actually alive and therefore it is important to make the most of this moment, not just loving ourselves or another soul, but to make experiences, and do the things that we feel and that the mind fears most, say the things we feel, create experiences and share our gift with all other souls.
After all, we will all end our journeys and the legacy that we leave will depend on what we do now.
Philip Dodson 