Hayley Solich

Posts Tagged ‘Life’

Today is not about what I do, it is about who I do it for. Today is not about how much money I make, but who I can help with the resources I have in my hand. Today is not about who pats my back, but how many people I encourage through my words and my actions. Today is ALL about living my life in service of others…for when we serve others, we are also serving ourselves.

In 2002 I went through an horrendous season in my life following the birth of my son.

This article, Out of the Blues,  was featured in Pearls Women’s Magazine published in 2007 in Perth, Western Australia.  It is my story of how I overcame post natal depression.

Download now by clicking here Out of the Blues. PDF 504kb

I often ponder about life…it just seems to whizz past.  The Golden Days was written as a reflection about growing older as I was working through some grief I felt for the loss of my youth.

I remember when Passion rushed through my blood

When every second was spent

In youthful exhibition of my creative flow

Why did those days have to go?

I remember when I could not be contained

I was the spark starting the raging fire

The glitter in the diamond

The glow in the lamp

Why did my style life cramp?

I remember when there were no boundaries

No limits upon my thinking

I could leave in a minute’s notice

Extending into an horizon so expansive

Why did life become so expensive?

I remember

But I wonder if it is only with the glazed eyes of age

Muting the pain, the hurt and the shame

And playing a movie so surreal

Of the Golden Days

That my mind deceivingly now plays?

In my life there have been many things that I have done, often at my own expense, that when questioned by others I have just had to say, “I don’t know why, I just know I need to do this.”

The beauty is that further along the pathway it becomes completely evident to me why I needed to do them as they were the stepping stones in the pathway that has led me to be the person that I am today, doing the things that I am doing.

What this has taught me is to value every experience, sucking the marrow out of life and being grateful for the many wonderful opportunities that have graced my life.

I just wanted to encourage you that sometimes what on the surface looks like it has nothing to offer you in the way of tangible benefits, yet you feel drawn to the opportunity, that it may have hidden treasure and that those around you may question you and you may not have an answer to give them immmediately.

If I stopped writing back when the first person questioned my ability or my use of my time I would never be feature writing for a national magazine now. And if I had questioned writing for that magazine for no payment immediately, I would never have gotten the opportunity to get my name known in the writing world. And if I had never started the Pearls Women’s Magazine project, I would never have gotten my foot in the door at the National Women’s Magazine. And if I’d listened to those that were questioning the value of giving my time to develop Pearls, all those people who read the magazine and their lives were changed in some positive way would never have happened.

Sometimes risks are essential if we want to find the hidden treasure.

I think you get my picture. You just never know when what you are doing has a positive spin off for others or for your own destiny, even if it is painful and a negative experience at the time.

There is a verse in the Bible that I love and brings me comfort. It says, “All things work together for the good…”

You may not understand which thread you are sewing with at this time in your life, but you are creating a rich tapestry and one day you will get to see it from the top side down, not just the underside up. Keep sewing!