9.5 Appreciating My Life Choices

 Life tends to take on reflective aspects as the years pass. During the latter chapters of our Life Journey, pondering what aspects of my life I'm most proud of can be valuable for introspective learning and sharing with others.  Like writing a personal eulogy, this introspective process can provide challenges to consider the specific choices for the life we have chosen to lead. This is especially the case if we have been blessed to live for many decades.  For example, do I choose to focus on the entire 30,000+ days that I have lived?  Do you and I choose to focus on the areas of pride that come during our childhood and youth years or give more attention to the adult years?  Do we choose to focus on specific life areas like relationships?  Do we focus on the inner and less visible ways we have evolved as independent and unique persons?   Do we choose to express our pride about the challenging goals and aspects of life that are more concrete and observable to others?  Each of us will choose a different path to ponder this area of feeling proud for living life's gifts.  How we may wish to convey it to others who are important to us will also be individualistic.