Our metaphor of life, as experienced by VAL, is a reflection of our belief that Livelifenow is a mindset based on active choice. Read the metaphor below.
‘Picture Life as an Apple Tree’
The trunk is life. We move up the trunk through school, careers, family, assets and retirement, until we reach the top. We know there’s more than just the ‘ordinary’, and yet we cling to our comfort zone… our thick, safe, trunks.
Then there are apples. Apples represent the realities that we wish to create for ourselves; opportunities we know are for us. However, given that they lie at the ends of thin branches, we choose not to step out into a world of risk and fear to pick them. We stay on the trunk.
No-one wants to get to the end of their lives to find themselves sitting on top of their apple tree, looking down at piles of rotten apples lying on the ground, never picked.
Our challenge is to step out onto that thin branch, to pick apples and to begin a journey that will change our reality.
In essence, we need to stop preparing to live; we need to livelifenow!
