What I Know For Sure — Goddess Culture

By: Jordan

IG: @jay_lasoul

I can confidently say that I am THE most random person you will ever meet. Thoughts, ideas, questions, noise, music, people, places, and things randomly pop in my head and then I feel the need to verbalize them. A recent Monday was no exception. While scarfing my Chipotle, I decided to get deep and ponder my life’s most valuable lessons to date. Those include 1. It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish; 2. Conditions do not have to be perfect to begin; and 3. My heart is always right.

I decided to humor myself and ask a loved one. Partially because I am nosey, but mostly because I am curious about the way people think, how they process their human experience, and in this case, if age and gender determine how we process valuable moments

Here are their answers:

16 year old female:

MY FAVORITE ONE That I Apply to my life everyday is the one from the book alchemist: Go through life being able to look at all of the marvels of life and not to spill any drops of oil on your spoon

20 year old male:

Everybody you love doesn’t have your same intentions in life so you have to love them at a distance

27 year old male:

That I only have one shot at life to my knowledge, and procrastinating will never benefit me. And I use procrastination strongly cause’ I do believe there is a big difference between patience and procrastination, I waited way too long to make moves to me, my biggest upset

31 year old female:

Building a relationship/ life with someone is life's most precious gift and its most lofty challenge
Forgiveness heals. It's an act of the soul and requires the suspension of the ego.
Gods favor is free and undeserved but I'm worth it. No matter how far I go and grow, I should not feel guilty for my transformation.
Manifestation is real and be actualized for better or for worse.
Smart people don't fail, they reflect and learn. Failure is not finite, everything is iterative.
Lastly, the hardest lessons take quite some time to grasp, quite a while to learn, and in some cases a lifetime to master. For this reason, I see myself as a constant work in progress.

31 year old male:

Even in failure, there's reward...if only time is taken to reflect & capture the lesson. Usually these are gems
Nurture your dreams as you would a child...therefore you develop them as you would a human.
Listen to life; she speaks a beautiful language that helps us if we pay attention.

35 year old female:

You are not your thoughts and you can choose which thought you want to manifest. I learned this through meditation
Self-care is an action of self-love
Your imagination is powerful to grow or stunt your imagination is what we choose to focus our intention/Attention on
Yoga is life. It's the first thing we do when we are born. BREATHE.

40+ year old female:

The power of choice - I am truly the co-creator of my life.

This kicked off my journey down the rabbit hole. After reading his response, I thought about Oprah’s column in O Magazine, “What I know for sure,” where she chronicles what she knows to be ultimate truths for herself. I highly encourage you, if not to subscribe to the magazine like I did, check out the top 20 things she knows for sure. Anywho, I won’t take the liberty of dissecting their responses as I feel I would not do them justice, but I challenge you all to take an inventory lessons that you know to be absolute truths for your life in this very moment.