23/06/2025
Dear little Tash,
It’s going to be a very long journey. The unfolding of life around you will feel a little scary, unknown. You will grow up way too fast, for reasons beyond your control. You’ll be a caregiver at a much younger age than most, and you won’t ask for help because to get on with it is all that you know. You won’t grow up to play at tennis at Wimbledon, or be a doctor. You’ll never have to search for your ‘true love’, and you’ll come to realise how rare that is, but also that you were spared the search because you needed that person for what was to come. Your babes will arrive with ease (again, something you’ll realise is a complete miracle when you witness others around you throw their whole life in one direction to have that priviledge). Much of your later 20’s, and most of your 30s will be spent going in and out of hospitals, rehab centres, and a nursing home, as your parents health declines even more. It’s no coincidence that the greatness of this heartache gives rise to the most profound period of personal growth, as if your whole life has suddenly happened in your 30s. Vedic Meditation will have such a profound impact on your life, that you end up being a carrier and conduit of the wisdom that laces every shift and leap forward. It’s a knowingness within that you’re so grateful to meet. The dark dances with the light for a period, you are forced to meet a type of grief well before your time (not once, but twice), before all of a sudden you feel as if you have to pinch yourself life is THAT good! Yet you know, it didn’t come “just like that”. You now join the dots as to why as a 6 or 7 year old you used to always open a Readers Digest wellbeing encyclopedia that your Mum had, and find this uncanny pull to ‘Y’ for ‘Yoga’.
Edging closer to your 40th birthday will have you deep in reflection, gratitude, wonder, and awe. At how sacred this gift of life is, and that it is your birthright to experience the richness of it alll 🤍
