One of the things I've learned along the way is that people inspire me. It doesn't have to be the amazing story that is a movie just waiting to be made. It can be the relatively mundane life of somebody whose outlook and actions I admire.
Take 80 year old Lois Enna, for example, who teaches 5 yoga classes a week. She started yoga in 1981 after a debilitating auto accident. Around the same time she left her job as inspector at a manufacturing plant and started focusing more on yoga and art.
In her new role, Enna realized that she was becoming a different person. She could finally relax and enjoy life, using yoga and art as her personal outlets.
“If you’re happy, everyone around you is happier,” she said. “It’s not that life doesn’t have peaks and valleys, but you weather them more because you know things are going to change.”
For me, sometimes that inspiration just comes from a snippet of wisdom that it's easy to lose sight of as we rush through our days with our noses to the grindstone.
After eight decades on this planet, Enna has come to realize something: Human beings are meant to be treasured.
“I want people to understand how wonderful they are,” she said. “They have the power to change to make the world a happier place. You don’t need to change the universe, just change your little world right here.”
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