The Writing Is Calling; Would My Father Be Proud Of Me?

My father always told me, "Laura, enjoy life while you can, because one day it will all become very serious."

Boy, he wasn't kidding.

When I started this website, I wanted people to know how simple it could be to get older, how complicated we sometimes make things, and to cover all the topics as it pertained to the physical body. For example:

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But, as I grow older, I've realized that although important to aging, just the physical body isn't all there is. In fact, getting older is just as much of an inner journey as it is an outer one. It is also about the constant process of becoming more of who you are.

And so I digress.

It's been almost three years since I've lost my dear father. And there is not a day that goes by that I don't think of him, miss him, or have a laugh when one of his pearls of wisdom becomes true in my life.

And so it is today. Today, I have realized that it is time that I come out of the shadows and begin living my own truth. That truth is: I love to write. Just that. Plain and simple. At first admission, my father would ask me, "Well, how does that make you any money?" And quietly I said that I didn't know.

What I did know was that he was proud of me when I published my first book, and loved to tell his friends and customers all about it. And he was proud of me when I started earning some checks as a result of writing about health for my own enterprise.

Yet, life has gone on from there. And now we fast-forward nearly ten years; my father is gone. My family and I have been working hard to keep his business and his legacy going, and me and my words have been slipping further and further into the past. The good new is, I still haven't forgotten how to do it. I still remember how it is to put words to a page and my enterprise is still up and running. And in 2016 I've decided that it's time for me, again. To get back to basics and give it all I've got once more.

Would my father be proud of me?

I do hope that he would. At a certain juncture, I believe, it becomes time to do less gathering and begin trusting in our hearts; searching for the messages that it holds. And with that said, I feel it's time to gather less and apply more. And hope, with all my heart, that my dad would approve.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura M. Turner, journalist, author and Certified Natural Health Practitioner is the creator of the Body Talk eZine: Nature's Anti-Aging Treasures Website. She invites you to join her "10 Years Younger" Campaign and to learn more about living younger, healing yourself and those you love with quality retail or wholesale Young Living essential oils and essential oil-based products. Visit today and begin a healthier tomorrow.