Live A Good Life. Give The World Good Light.
If I was to crack open my own ribcage and reveal to you a few values that I am the most fiercely passionate about in this life that have been within me for as long as I can remember... In one hand I would hold the belief that our life is precious beyond measure and that is not to be taken lightly, but should motivate us all to use the lungs we have to inhale as much of life as we possibly can while we have the breath in our lungs.
In the other hand I would hold the belief that each of us wields a possibility to make the world a better place than you found it, how ever you are called or choose to define ‘better’. Next I might show you the belief that every person on this planet deserves a good and beautiful life to create, walk in, and live. (Obviously, so long as no one else is being harmed or oppressed in the process.)
So much of my spirit has always raged against the concept of a world that asks you to be small, to kill your creativity. A world that robs you of your agency, that has normalized being so greatly disconnected from ourselves. I have ached over this for as long as I can remember. It’s incomprehensible to me why we teach each other that suppression of our aliveness is normal.
It brings me to my knees to think about how many people could live their entire lives and leave without knowing what it might have felt like to have laughed with new friends while watching the sun go down over that ocean they dreamt of visiting one day, or to have built the company they wish existed, or to have made the art that ached within them to be created.
Culturally we think that it would take so much work to change these behaviors because we can’t control how other people live their lives. But, we forget that the worst cruelty that is a result from the judgement and limiting beliefs that come from the world around us is the cruelty we inact on ourselves when we accept those stories as true, as who you are & what is possible for you.
You can be the gatekeeper of your own experience, or you can be the artist designing your most vibrant and expressed life.
Gatekeeper’s believe in limitation. Artist’s believe in possibility.
Choosing to create and live a bigger, bolder, aligned life that is meaningful and fulfilling and joyous for yourself is how you rebel against a world that would rather you be unfulfilled and starving. Believing in possibility is how you rage against an oppressive world, system, or culture. Believing that you deserve to live a good a life is how you rage against a world that normalizes settling for survival.
Live a Good Life
When I use the word good I do not mean niceness, politeness, or something judged by others as enough or aspirational, etc. In our context here, Good means… satisfying, fulfilling, something that breeds generosity, something that is joyful, intentional.
The good life I am speaking to is a life that feels good to you when you lay your head on your pillow each night. You close your eyes to rest and you feel satisfied, nourished, in harmony with your self and the world around you.
To live your good life:
Befriend your own life. Live in integrity with what you value and what is deeply fulfilling to you. Live a life you would relive. Live a life you will be proud to have lived come that day you are 90 sitting on your porch drinking coffee and thinking of your early days, a life that you will be satisfied to leave behind. Live well.
This is how I believe you deserve to move through your life.
Give the world Good Light.
Who you are when you are the most fulfilled by your own life is a version of you that inherently uplifts and illuminates the world around you. Whether you are acutely intentional of having a positive or specific effect of goodness or not, when you are living a satisfying life you will inherently uplift your community. When your needs are met, you not only can but you will have more resources to pour into others.
When you are your most luminous, you enrich the colors of life around you.
To give the world Good Light:
Live your life so true to yourself that it generates an internal radiance so vibrant and palpable that it cannot help but to reach out and touch the world around you. Making the world around you a little bit brighter simply because of the radiance you carry with you.
This is how empowered I believe you can be.
Live a good life. Give the world good light. Everything I have shared in the two years I’ve been writing this journal, simmers down to this. Everything I write in the future years of this journal will be the same.
Thank you for reading the Good Light journal over the last 2 years.
Get out there and make some Good Light.
Xx Riley Reign
