Charlotte Perkin

THE RAW TRUTH ABOUT BEING SPIRITUALLY AWAKENED Let me be honest. One thing about spiritual awakening is that it changes the way you look at life, work, money and freedom. I do not aspire to stay employed for the rest of my life, following schedules, waking up to alarms, asking for permission to rest, and spending most of my existence working just to afford a little time to actually live. I want to LIVE. I want to wake up and feel the sun on my skin. I want to sit under a tree without looking at my watch. I want to hear the birds, feel the wind, walk barefoot on the earth, connect with nature and have enough time to hear my own thoughts. I want to enjoy nature without constantly feeling like I am running out of time. And no, this does not mean I am lazy or that I do not want to work. I want to create. I want to build my own things, share my gifts, serve people, make money and live comfortably. But I do not want my entire existence to revolve around survival. I want money to support my life, not my life to be sacrificed in pursuit of money. Perhaps that is one of the uncomfortable truths of awakening: you begin questioning a system you were taught to accept without questioning. You start wondering why freedom is treated like a retirement benefit when we are born into a world full of beauty that we barely have time to experience. Imagine having a beautiful earth, a body that can feel, eyes that can see, a soul that longs for peace, and spending your entire life rushing from Monday to Friday, waiting for weekends and holidays to feel alive. I want a different kind of wealth. Time. Peace. Freedom. Nature. Meaningful work. Genuine connections. The ability to breathe without constantly calculating how much time I have left before my next responsibility. I innerstand that bills must be paid and responsibilities must be honored. Spiritual awakening does not exempt us from reality. But surely we can work towards a life where survival is not the only thing we know. We did not create this beautiful earth for us to only admire it through a car window on our way to work. I am not saying everyone must leave their jobs. I am saying I personally want to build a life where it is a chapter, not my entire identity. I want to experience life while I am still alive. Not wait until my body is tired, my knees hurt and my energy is gone to finally enjoy the world I spent my whole life working for. BE HONEST: DO YOU WANT TO CLIMB THE CORPORATE LADDER, OR DO YOU SECRETLY DREAM OF DISAPPEARING INTO NATURE AND NEVER CHECKING THE TIME AGAIN? ✨🙌🏾💫