Ooh this is one of those interview questions that you can never prepare for, isn’t it? The one that you’re supposed to answer with something profound and/or ambitious. I do remember answering this once, albeit the timescale was 5 years, with ‘in your job’. I don’t think I meant it, I think I just thought it was the easiest answer to give because in all honesty, I have never been one of those people to have a 5 year, let alone 10 year, plan.
And I’ve just realised the image above may be interpreted as heaven. I don’t see myself in heaven in 10 years, it’s meant to represent the vastness of thought. I think.
10 years…2035. Interesting. I will be 64 years of age, my son will likely have flown the nest and into the Armed Forces if he gets his wish. He is the one with the 10 year plan in our family, my husband doesn’t have one either. And I have no idea where I see myself in 10 years time, so I’m going to approach this one by writing with my eyes closed. Allowing my Higher Self to take the reins and answer the question…let’s get ready for the ride. It should be interesting as 54 year old me isn’t really sure what she wants, so who knows what 64 year old me will say! Any text in this blog in italics is my Higher Self speaking.
In 10 years time you are openly spiritual which has helped people overcome the tyranny that is emerging in today’s society. Who has called out the political nonsense and helped the majority find the way forward that is meaningful for them. Creating a new system, a new structure and a new model that reflects a society that has had enough of division and a lack of connection. Creating a society that openly accepts our connection to our souls, to nature, to the universe, to everything. To accept that there is a collective consciousness that we have a profound impact upon. Wow. Okay, not sure how I feel about that. Yes, I do see myself as part of a necessary movement to take us away from the nonsense that is happening. Someone that is helping the old structures to die, to minimise the impact of their death throes, and to shepherd in the new. A new way of living that is one of peace, connection, and respect for all living things because we are all part of this giant organism that is the universe. And like the universe we are growing and re-shaping all the time.
In 10 years time you are a successful author whose fiction and non-fiction works are well received and are part of your journey. You channel and write books that help to explain to people in the simplest terms what is happening and how they can live the lives they have always wanted to live but not known how to. You take some of the more esoteric notions within the realms of New Age thinking and bring them down to something that is more understandable for the common people. Because you are one of the common people too. Yes, I would love to do this. I would love to help more people see that so-called New Age thinking isn’t ‘woo woo’ but is more of the truth than the society we currently live in. That this society is the construct, not the New Age thinking, that the New Age thinking is called that by a society that sees it as a threat to them. Or, at least, echelons of society who are driven by power and greed. Like the majority of people, I dream of a society in which power and greed are eradicated. But unlike a majority of people, I believe it can be created – and that that majority of people can and should have the voice they deserve to determine the lives they want to live. I am totally here for that position to be in in 10 years time.
You don’t have a home base as such in 10 years time. The world is your home and you travel it to spread your message but also because you go where you are called to go to. Even places with giant spiders and insects because they are all part of the collective consciousness too! Yes, you will travel endlessly, you won’t have that base as such in the way your egoic mind dreams of. The notion of home to you will shift and change as you have already started with that. The notion of home not being a place but being a feeling that you can provide for yourself. Yes, you need somewhere to rest your head but you will not be defining yourself anymore as English or British but as a child of earth. Okay. Interesting again. Not something I have ever thought of, I have always chased that societal notion of home, I guess. That your home is a place. But I have been challenged by that notion recently, asking myself if that is true why have I never felt like where I live is a home? I have been challenged to question what does home represent for me, and I have realised it represents a feeling. That home is about safety, security, love, and peace as well as a sense of freedom. And then I was challenged to think – why am I looking externally for this? When the answers to all of that are internal, and how you can feel in the absolute moment anywhere in the world. Because in looking for the external to create that for ourselves, we are always doomed to disappointment ultimately. It’s like when you’re looking for a relationship, if you don’t love yourself first no one else can really love you as you want to be loved. Everything starts internally and then the rest follows.
You travelling the earth does not represent a danger to the environment. No, the environment is challenged far more by issues such as factories and the encroachment of people onto forests and the lungs of the earth. The methods of travel people utilise are seeking to reduce their impact on he environment, and they will achieve that. But there are other, far more pernicious issues that impact the environment the largest of all being power and greed. That is where the problem lies, this sense of dominion over nature. If you are conscious that your existence on this planet has an environmental impact then you will seek to rectify that. Caring is the most important thing, and the things that really harm nature are done by those who do not care. And their time is coming to an end. I asked in my mind how could I travel the earth when in doing so, I am causing a detrimental environmental impact. And this was the response.
All those things you are chasing now will no longer matter. The financial worries, the thoughts of the right education for your son. None of these things are real. Taking your son travelling, enrolling him in different classes, letting him see the world and who lives in it will be more valuable to him than sitting him in a classroom for hours on end learning parrot fashion to be repeated in exams that do not matter. You’ve had this awakening, you know this already. You worry about him making friends – the world is his friend. He knows this better than you do. He is incredibly self-sufficient and engages and relates to his friends in a different way than you ever did. He is already outside of the Matrix if you want to call it that. So stop worrying about that. In 10 years time you know it all works out for him in the best possible way, and not in the way you expect. But in the way that is right for him. Let go of the chains that are binding you. You don’t worry about money because it finds you. That is how money is supposed to work. It is in the suffering around it that you feel the lack. That it is stopped from coming to you. Be free, be open, know that it flows to you in ever increasing abundance and you will be free. The world will be free. There is no need to hoard it, there is no need to fear it, there is no need to be greedy or jealous with it. Just let it flow. It is humanity that prevents its own invention from flowing. Interesting, money is an invention of humanity. As an exchange for goods and services, it is perhaps an imperfect invention but the best that we could come up with as society evolved and became more complex. A bit like time, really. Imperfect but necessary for structure in our lives. The idea that relaxing about money and allowing it to flow to you is not new to me in any way. But it’s the doing it that is difficult at times. I do sometimes think that the spirit world is not aware of the impact and importance of money in the earthly world, but of course they are. They’ve been here too, they get it. But they know more of the truth of how it works than we do, especially when we are stuck in the dense energy of want and scarcity. I get it completely. Time is different as well so what is tomorrow for us, is tomorrow for them too but perhaps tomorrow a year from now. That’s the hard part to reconcile, I guess. That what we think of as a couple of months away does not translate as well in the spirit world. That and the fact they don’t want to upset us with ‘well, we mean next year and you’re just going to have to hang on in there and wait for it but that’s what growth is all about’. So I suppose the real lesson here is not to ask spirit for timescales just trust that it’s going to happen when it is supposed to and learn all the lessons you can in the meantime.
Okay, not necessarily what I was expecting my life to be like in 10 years time. But it links into a life led by the real me, not the one who has been forcing herself into a box that doesn’t fit as per my last blog. It’s not a hard and fast plan I can sit and write an action plan around, but that’s not who I am anyway. I am more of a go with the flow kind of person rather than someone who has a fixed goal and pursues it relentlessly. I’m reminded of the two different horses I used to ride. There was Rusty, the 16-hand thoroughbred beautiful horse who knew where he was going on a hack, knew what his job was in giving you a good canter, and nothing distracted him. Then there was Blossom, the 14-hand cob who would meander through the forest stopping when she fancied to eat some particularly delicious-looking leaves. She got where she was going in the end, it just took a bit longer and she enjoyed herself as well. I think I’m more Blossom than Rusty.
To sum this all up for the answer to that interview question, in 10 years time there is a part of me that sees me as being a successful author who travels the world to spread a spiritual message and who doesn’t worry about money because it finds her. I can’t say I am unhappy with that vision, not sure what job that will get me though!
Louisa Simpson 