We all have multiple roles in life – parent, child, spouse/partner, relation-in-law, sibling, friend, worker, neighbour, citizen, etc. Many roles are nourishing and many roles just get us down. This is how many of us drain our vitality – playing roles we don’t feel connected with.
What is vitality? According to my understanding from our Nature Cure guru, vitality is the life force, the finite conserve of energy assigned to us when we are conceived. From that moment, the ticker begins, till the conserve reaches zero, the end of life. Vitality cannot be replenished, it can only be managed. That means we want to use it wisely, reducing the drains.
Many of us are aware of the roles in our life that replenish us. Many of us feel they are burdens but don’t realise their gifts till we look again from the lens of gratitude. Many of us are in such a rush, we don’t know which roles are draining us. There is no time to reflect or consider. For them, a pause, in the form of any meditative or insightful practice, creates the space for discovery.
And many of us aspire to play some roles that look like a mere dream. Why a dream? Because the roles we are currently playing have enmeshed us, entangled us, leaving us no energy for what we wish to pursue.
Well, life is no constant and neither are roles. Sometimes, to take on a new role, old roles must be dropped, changed, or shifted. All we need is patience, courage and understanding.