Luxury, you can’t live without

A sound mind, my health, and myself. These are ingredients I can never buy in a supermarket , nor buy them when they go on sale. They can never equal any dollar amount. They will never have a price tag because once lost or comprised, they can not be replaced. There are needs, never wants we take for granted until they are compromised. When we are not whole taking care of ourselves, then we can’t help, assist, or take care of others around us. If I can’t live with myself, how can I expect others to live with me or tolerate who I am?.

My health is one area I remain on tabs about and limit diagnosing myself. We easily diagnose ourselves, by using remedies we google on the internet or from our friends and families testimonial forgetting we don’t have their full story of what led to those options, choices. Even though we get the whole testimony, remember our body chemicals will always matter. What may have worked for one person may be poison to another. I feel that once your health is bent out of shape, it leads to not living your fullest potential, quality life.  Having a sound mind can be taken lightly, for granted until when people encounter a mental well-being calamity or breakdown. Mental wellness can never be bought , nor does it ever go on sale.  What we feed our minds, bodies, and souls the harvest is detemined with what we chose to plant. Our harvest can be bountiful,  fruition, when we are intentional with our planting season.

I choose to use the words mental wellness because when my mental wellness is not there, the ability to live a social, equitable, effortless, able life, then my choices become limited. Our choice of words towards our journey can build or destroy. Proverbs 18:21 says-Death and life are in the power of the tongue. ” The tongue can be used as a weapon to harm and destroy or as a tool to build and heal. When we are polite to ourselves and give ourselves grace, our mind, body, and soul repairs, recover and restore.

This summer, God willing, I aspire to run at least 6, 5K run. We completed our first 5K this past weekend, June 1st. We are in partnership with my daughter Wanjira to meet our goal this summer. We are forever grateful for the opportunity last weekend, June 1st, and look forward to many more to come, God willing.

Cesare Pavese once said-Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Much love ❤️

Mimi Waruguru