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365 Thoughts of Healing – #244

September 1, 2025•365 Thoughts of Healing, Love, Motivation, Self-development, Success

Today is the 244th day of the year. Instead of picking a random page, I have chosen the actual number of the day in the year. I hope it speaks to you. Have a wonderful day and start to the new week!

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Yes, precisely, Gary! For too long we may live other people’s dreams whitout even noticing since we were so talked into it. It is not easy when you get told from childhood on that only “this” is the right way. But at one point our inner Self pushes harder and harder and we notice that there is more than we were taught or that we only believed in a misunderstanding.

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Many were taught not to put their passion first priority but to look at the “serious side of life”. Passion was put into the drawers together with “unrealistic” dreams. But this all does have priority… or they would not come up all the time!

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Oh Erika …………….. it had to happen! I have a little problem with this “244” but, in fairness, it may be because I have not read “245”. No doubt you will correct me if I go astray here!

Giving oneself free reign to follow ones passion is a wonderful basis for life, but it is not necessarily going to fill ones life with meaning. In fact it could easily turn rather negative.

For example: As a young boy growing up in England a few minutes away from the London to Edinburgh main railway lines, I loved trains and it was my desire to work for (then) British Railways. However, I went to (what was considered) a very good school, and my father made it clear to me that no boy left that school to work for British Railways!

Undeterred, by second passion was ships and, as I my father also loved ships, this was surely not going to be an issue. It wasn’t, and in fact it was encouraged to the extent that my parents acquired some financial help from a government agency to put me through an appropriate college. I graduated with Honours, and the Blue Star Line was pleased to hire me however, standard procedure dictated that I have a thorough medical examination prior to joining my ship. I failed that medical, and a second opinion did not change anything.

I had no passion to follow at that point. Of course other life concepts eventually became part of my life and, on reflection, I am happy with my life journey to date ……. but at times it was not easy.

Yes, of course give free rein to your passion, but a worthwhile life may be the result of far more complex circumstances.

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I see your point, Colin! But you went for it, you tried it – with passion and joy. Some things are not meant to be, but as long as you were doint them they fulfilled you. At least that is what I read from your two examples. Maybe there was simply more for you to explore in this lifetime.

I dare to say that most people reach a point when things fall apart they thought they were their destiny – only to reveal something even bigger, new directions, and paths to walk. But what you learned through your passions for ships and railways was definitely not in vain, but part of your whole concept for life. I don’t think you regret that you went for both. But maybe you would regret if you had never tried… (which is a matter we discussed at ealrier occasions).

Thank you a lot for sharing your point of view. That is what spreads inspiration and gives additional perspectives.

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I know that point well Colin. After I left school I went for a job on the railways. I failed my medical. I was blind as a bat and didn’t know it, I had been missed in eye tests at school so it was never picked up. It wasn’t until I was 40 that I did decide I was going to do what I enjoyed the most. So began my Remedial Massage and healing. I loved going to work every day, smiling. Annoyed so many people I worked with, they said I wasn’t normal. Made me see that most did it because it was money, not their hearts. Great share kind sir, life does have many surprises in that side of our paths 🤗❤️🙏

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Hi Mark – Fascinated by your response, particularly as eyesight was my issue as well. Blue Star Line wanted me so badly that they covered the costs for a specialist to look at my situation. The conclusion was that whoever was responsible for my pre-college eye examination was delinquent. He said that my eye sight could not possibly have deteriorated that much in such a relatively short space of time.

In hind sight (and as you will no doubt agree), while the whole incident was devastating to me at the time, the reality that I have to earn an income triggered the necessary mental change to prepare for a totally different life trajectory.

I reflect back on that period of time as a valuable life experience. In fact I feel rather sad for anybody who has not experienced similar circumstances because they may be living with the expectation that their needs will always be met …………. but their life could take a disastrous turn at some time in the future. I wonder how they will cope?

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It is a shock at the time, but yes, we need those things so we can ‘know’ how to face them and adapt. And I understand what you mean in the comment that whoever checked your eyes must have been delinquent. How I slipped through the cracks was amazing.
But…maybe that was my journey, to be faced with a bridge broken on my path and had to look at myself long and hard to decipher another path. Mind you, I think I did that a few times in my life before I found the one thing I loved.
It’s good to test a few things and see what fits. My biggest problem was, and being that young, knowing what I really wanted. All the ‘guidance’ was from the ‘money hungry’ types 🤗❤️🙏

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I totally agree with you. Although we can see our future so clearly and go for it in big excitement, there can be conditions that cut the path in one instant. At that moment, we cannot see how everything shall continue since that was the way we were pursuing – without any other plan on our minds. But, as you both said, sometimes life teaches us to learn how to get back on our feet and find new ways. Sometimes that is the only purpose when things go well and end unexpectedly. And it shows that life always goes on.
I believe that there were other things happening later that you both could (maybe unconsciously) cope only or better with because of that former experience. At least, when I think back in my life, the first of such shock experiences was the worst and later, I accepted much better that life happens and we are called to find ways to deal with what it leaves for us.

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Well said Erika. This life tests us in so many ways , and I think as we get older those things we do find so important slowly disappear, and those things that seemed irrelevant come closer within. Moving from those physical things to a more emotional and spiritual way of being. That love thing 🤗❤️🙏

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Thank you, Mark, that is so well said. We follow a path and at one point it can end or lead into another path. That’s life, that’s development. We must never lose our curiousity about what comes next. Because that only builds up on what was before. And yes, that love thing 😃💖

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That’s right, we need to let our love guide us – not more, not less! Thank you so much. I love living my passion in so many things I do. Sometimes it is only a decision to be passionate about what one does 💖

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