Can You create the life you want?

Good morning!! As I sit waiting for my jury duty badge number to be called, my mind wanders to something I've been thinking about for some time now. Can we really create the life that we want? Some friends of mine, like myself, are living a life that we wouldn't choose for ourselves otherwise. There are illnesses and accidents, break-ups and dissolutions, debts and bankruptcies-none that we would like to experience. So, from the modern thought, we are told that we can create the life that we want by simply "making it happen". Can we really? In theory, yes. We can act and do. We have the power to buy and make. We can persuade and manipulate. But creating the life that we want just may in fact involve the will of others and that, my dear friends, we can not create. I believe creating the life we want has to do more with concepts than anything. We want to be happy, we can create an environment that consists of the things that make us happy (i.e. flowers, cooking, shopping). We want peace, we can remove the worry and the doubt from our minds, rid our space of chaos, etc. We want a family, it may mean restructuring our definition of what family is to us. Creating the life we want may mean living in another reality other than the one we see in our minds. It requires you getting in touch with your truest self and allowing your soul to speak to you. It will tell you what is your heart's desire and it is then you act and do accordingly. Blessings, Aurellia