Peace, Harmony and The Purpose of Life

Everyday people with diabetes are faced with the conscious decision to live or to die. Our decisions have to be made consciously as they are scrutinized much more closely than the non-diabetic. But ultimately, we are no different.

This is the realism that we encounter many times throughout the course of any day. This is what we deal with and this is the reality that we live with in our lives. We either live with a conscious effort to understand and control our diabetes or we make unconscious decisions and then pay the immediate bad prices for these actions. Life as a diabetic is not an easy one. It is a life that has to be lived under constant management and awareness of everything.

The smallest of things has the largest of impacts.

When we decide to test our sugar, we’re making a conscious choice. When we decide to eat or drink our minds have to think about what is that were eating and what it’s going to do to our blood sugar. When we decide to either shoot our insulin or not we are making a conscious decision for that as well.

Life with diabetes is under a 24 hour magnified glass. You see and live life with a much clearer reminder of the life that is happening before your eyes.

Ultimately though every human faces this, you can take in food and water or not. You can decide to live or die. But how many people are actually aware of the decisions they make? Do people, or non-diabetics in this case, truly KNOW or are they actually AWARE of the decisions they make? Unfortunately, I think a lot of people take life for granite. I think a lot of people are unaware of their true beautiful existence until something like diabetes, or some other life changing event or time of suffering, comes along and shakes up their entire being and puts them in alignment with spirituality and a true purpose.

That was me then and this is me still sometimes. I struggle and have brief moments of intense “suffering” and then I get re-aligned through meditation work or other spiritual materials and reminders. (I currently have a video on compassion spoken through the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.)

I was a fourteen year old boy who knew nothing of true suffering or pain. If I am honest, and in a true place of peace with my life and diabetes, then I have to say that diabetes is a beautiful thing. That getting it has been the ultimate reminder of what it means to be a human being in the universe. Life has a funny way of showing a person who they are, or where they are at. When you are least expecting it and when you are the furthest from the truth (of what I believe the purpose of life is), to bring consciousness and life and being to the collective experience, the universe shows you. To be happy and compassionate and to live in peace and harmony with everything is, what I believe, we are here for. So ultimately living with diabetes is no different. Our purpose is still the same. We can either choose to live or to die, but living should be done in peace, it’s about letting go of the mind-made struggles and conflicts with what IS, and just being.

Namaste. (I bow to you – the light in me honors the light in you.)

-Andrew