Don’t Live Your Life Backwards!

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that they are difficult!

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. We, as artists, never entirely know, we guess, we may be wrong, but we take leap after leap into the darkness. That way we bring the unknowing into the light but it is not gone.

The only way to escape fear is to transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures, take a risk a day, one small or bold stroke and it will make you feel great once you have done it.

Chance is always powerful, let your hook be always cast, in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish! When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse.

You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. We should all use our creative power because nothing makes us so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.

At the height of laughter the universe is flung open into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. So we should laugh as much as we can. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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Written by VIP Member Thomas Michael Eure of Richmond, VA who has been a writer and painter for over forty years. Tom started his work career at his Dad’s grocery store when he was 10 and has always been fascinated with people and their habits. He attended college for six years ending up a philosophy major with a concentration in psychology.

In the spring of his sixth year he took off with some friends who had a covered wagon. Leon Gillis was his mentor and teacher of leather work and had been across the U.S. and from Amsterdam to Moscow in 1962 in his wagon.

Tom and his wife of thirty years have the unique Atlantis Leather shop at the Greenbrier Hotel’s artist’s colony and are frequent visitors to Costa Rica.

Andrew Makarik

to@welovecostarica.com

Andrew Makarik is the main editor of WeLoveCostaRica, a fan of this sunny country. He is also a loving husband and a has a lovely daughter. By being a devoted family man and the biggest Costa Rica fan, he wants to make more people feel at home there. WeLoveCostaRica unites people and helps them find new home or a new travel destination. This website is a friendly community where everyone can find not only information, but also new friends and travel pals. Andrew is also passionate about IT and programming, so he himself maintains a friendly atmosphere in this cozy environment of WeLoveCostaRica.com.