On Karma, Sharks, Unicorns, Gratitude and Life lessons
- Chiara De Caroli
- Mar 23, 2017
- 3 min read
It happened to each and any of us: every time we are challenged, or we just had to fight our way through life, or something happens to us, we say "If karma is real, after all I had to go through, in my next life I must be (type what you like), I deserve it!". To me, it is mostly "unicorn". After all I have been through, the betrayal, the challenges, the losses, after all this, I deserve to be Unicorn at the very least! And we also ask ourselves why, what did we do in our past or current life, and if there is a lesson what is it, and why do we have to learn it the hard way.
I was thinking about it yesterday, something triggered something inside of me and I was basically complaining (yeah, blaming the karma IS complaining). And then, I realized that I had never understood it. N E V E R.
I stopped for a second, and looked at me. How blessed is my life now. I have a family everywhere I go. I have my family, safe and sound, happy and healthy, back in my beloved Island. I have the love of my life with me. I have friends, those who supported me in spite of those mistakes that led me to pay the toll to pain and suffering, and the new ones that make me feel I'm home in this place I can call my new home. I am finally facing my dreams, because dreams are something you have to face, not something you just make happen. Because to make them happen, you have to challenge yourself, the image you have about yourself. All the things everyone kept telling you that you were not enough for, until the day that people pulling you down turned out to be just you. Pain and self disesteem are a safe shelter. You know that place, you've been there forever, you know how to deal with it. But challenging yourself, facing your real limits, discovering that they actually are real, and how much strength it takes to overcome them, that is a challenge.
Stop letting people pull you down, stop being that people, stop thinking that you are not worth it. Some people are like sharks, and you weakness is the blood they smell. They will come for you and eat you up.
This is just not right, this shouldn't happen. Because most of the times, the people that end up in the sharks' stomachs are good people.
But the only person that can stop it is you.
Keep reminding yourself that YOU ARE WORTH IT. Because you are, potentially. An I say potentially because you are the only one, again, that can make it real, that can make yourself worthy. Be worthy, and you will never end up again in some shark's stomach. Be grateful for who you are, because you are precious, your life is precious, what you can do is precious. Do precious things, be precious. And you will be invincible.
And suddenly I realized something: I already am in my next life. I am already getting my pay-off for my past life. And that past life is the life of yesterday, and the day before, and so on. There is no "past life" I am not responsible for that I am paying the mistakes of. That past life, those mistakes, were me, that me of one, two, ten, twenty years ago.
And that next life that will see me as a Unicorn is this life. Today, tomorrow, ten years from now.
So, to me this is the famous "karma" thing. What you do of your mistakes. How you handle them. How you handle your success, too. Karma is b*tch only with b*tches.
Because your new life start every day. And today I am a fuck*ng shiny Unicorn. No matter what, no matter how hard is still going to be, no matter how many mistakes I still have to fix, I am a Unicorn.
Blessed be.
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