I've jumped on The Crown bandwagon and I'm rattling through the early seasons.
There’s a moment in Season 3 where the Queen is jet-setting around Europe and the US. She’s visiting stables to take a few tips back home.
Cue the Queen over steak and chips in Kentucky:
“This is how I’d like to spend all my time.
Owning horses, breeding horses, racing horses. It’s what makes me truly happy. And I actually think it’s what I was born to do.
Until the other thing came along. And on days like today you get a glimpse of what it all might have been like. The unlived life.
And how much happier it might have made me”.
The Queen has spent a few days immersed in what she loves.
Not just surrounded by horses. But everything that goes with it. The
conversations, the people, the places and the lifestyle.
It’s the life she could’ve lived.
And she admits that living this life – the unlived life – might’ve made her a whole lot happier.
You might have your own version of
this. Your own tasters of what the Queen describes as “what you were born to do”.
Like an interest or passion you could
spend more time on. Or a project you’d love to start.
Perhaps the unlived life for you is resisting distractions and staying on
your path.
Or maybe it’s more subtle. Tiny glimpses of what life could be like which evaporate as soon as they
appear.
Fortunately for the Queen, she found her passion.
Unfortunately for the Queen, she was in a tough spot.
Because taking the Crown was her
duty. She didn’t have a choice. So her unlived life stayed unlived.
However, you don’t have the same
duty.
Sure, you’ll have obligations. So it might
not feel like you have a choice.
But the reality is…
There’s always a choice.
(even the Queen had a choice – as her uncle showed)
The unlived life doesn’t have to stay unlived.
You might not be sure what you want to do. And you might not be sure how to do it.
But you can choose to find out.
And if you’d like to explore this further, I can help.
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That’s it for today.
- Tom
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