To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #181       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         Today is the tomorrow you keep postponing your life for.                     Here’s the hard truth. If you wait until you feel better to start living, you might be waiting forever. Go live your life. Do it sad. Do it anxious. Do it unplanned. Do it on the go. Do it intuitively. Do it instinctively. Do it uncertainly. Do it with no insight. Do it with no outcome in mind.           Because life doesn’t wait for you to be curled up in a mink blanket sipping chamomile tea, planning for the next three years with an action plan fed into an app with daily reminders and rewards for streaks.           Life happens point-blank without warning, in the middle of the day, in the dead of the night, in the aftermath of a Friday night of alcohol and debauchery. Life happens on a Sunday morning on the 41st kilometre of a marathon when the idea strikes unannounced. Life happens when you are at your lowest, waiting to heal so you can breathe again. Because here’s the thing – healing doesn’t always come before the experience. Sometimes, the experience is what heals you. And it’s these experiences that call upon you to pour yourself into life fully with your arms spread open, living your dreams instead of living your fears.           Life will not wait for a New Year’s resolution to gain momentum. The muse will not wait for the morning alarm to ring. An idea whose time has come will not wait for you to finish your breakfast first. It’ll bend the spoon, curdle the milk in your bowl, burn the toast, or add more salt to the omelette so that you get up from that table and hold the vision of your dream in your arms and start living.           And you get to live this beautiful, magnificent life on your terms. You get to decide if hard truths need to be told in a harsh manner or if they can be delivered with love and compassion. Life will send you tired wolves and puppies, butterflies and moths. You get to choose if you want to sing lullabies for them and rub their bellies with soft hands, or swat them with all the veins in your head and arms throbbing.           If there is a right time and place for life, it’s now and here. You have a choice to live your today like the tomorrow you have imagined - the tomorrow which you are working so hard to create that you miss out on the beautiful today.                 Privilege is not your fault. Wasting it is.                     Some of us are born in a palace, some on the street. Some of us are born into money, some into poverty. Some of us are born with a safety net. Some of us are born without a floor.           Maybe you were born into a certain surname, a passport, a network, an education, a body that works, a skin colour or a caste that opens doors before you even knock.           Sure, you didn’t earn that. You received it. And that really is not your fault.           Privilege is not your fault.           We live in times where privilege comes with a strange guilt. I don’t want to use my dad’s or partner’s money. I want to prove myself on my own. I don’t want anyone to say I had it easy.           Here’s the thing. No one out there is giving you a medal for making your life harder than it needs to be. There are people who wish they had your resources, your surname, your education, your passport. So if you have it, use it. The people who are struggling to raise capital or pay rent don’t need you to prove that you can suffer like them.           Privilege sitting in the corner doing nothing is not humility. It’s wasted grace.           It’s the gift of the universe being outright rejected because of your trauma that calls on you to prove yourself to the world when there’s no need to, when no one is even asking you to.           Privilege isn’t only a full bank account. There is privilege in having even one emotionally safe parent, having a body that mostly does what you ask of it, having the time to think about purpose, not just survival, speaking a language the world values, being born in a certain city, class, caste or country, having access to therapy, healing, coaches, books and retreats.           Privilege is not your fault but it is your responsibility. If you’ve had the privilege to heal, you now have the responsibility to help without hurting. If you already have seed money and you want to start a business, start it. If your family can fund your education, take it. If your network can open doors, knock. If you have time and health and support, use it.           The universe didn’t put a parachute on your back so you could argue whether you ‘deserve’ to jump. It gave you that parachute so you could leap further, create more, help people, feed families, build ideas that outlive you.           Privilege is not meant to make you feel ashamed. It’s meant to make you useful. You don’t honour privilege by denying it. You honour it by multiplying it.           In the language of sewa, privilege is simply another word for ‘resources life has trusted you with’. Sewa is how you show you were worthy of that trust.           You are a child of the universe. Some children are handed seeds, some are handed soil, some are handed water, some are handed sunlight. Your job is not to apologise for being given sunlight. Everyone’s job is to grow a garden and your job is to bring the sunlight to the table. Don’t go looking for seeds.           Use your privilege boldly, humbly, in service. That is how you say thank you to life.             Our upcoming retreats                         Mandi Last 2 Seats Left 8th to 14th March     Mandi’s tranquil environment serves as the perfect backdrop for personal metamorphosis, ensuring you return home with a revitalised spirit and fresh perspective of life!   More details     Reignite conversation     Bhimtal Registrations Open 10th to 16th May     Bhimtal offers a rare kind of Kumaoni serenity. This landscape creates the perfect setting for inner work, allowing reflection to unfold naturally.   More details     Reignite conversation     Mandi Registrations Open 14th to 20th June     Mandi in summer is a calm escapade. Cool mountain air, green slopes, and quiet mornings create space to breath, rejuvenate and slow down.   More details     Reignite conversation           This week, let's revisit     Munnar December 2025                         Experience a life full of purpose                     The purpose of my life is to create ease in all human hearts.   Najma Shaikh Kasauli, September 2022         The purpose of my life is to transform the lives of children by unravelling the knowledge of the universe.   Aravindh M Dorrappa Kasauli, April 2022               For a daily dose of Creativegarh and our retreats, follow us here:                           Mantra Gold Coatings & The White Paper Creative         Sunita Somani         Pedal On               View Our Collabs for Joy                   creativegarh.com             You are receiving this newsletter because either you have subscribed to it through our website, interacted with us by filling an invite form or because you have asked us to put you on the database. 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