Live light

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The difference between heavy and light people is the habit of apportioning blame. Light, liberated people don't 'do' blame. They don't carry around baggage from their past and they don't accumulate it in their present life. That doesn't mean that they've simply led a heavenly, blessed existence. It means that they see things differently. They're more freed up because they're not dragging around grievances and old wounds with them. They travel light.
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Goldie is a graffiti artist, hip-hop icon, DJ, actor and all-around international star. He drives a Porsche, a Mercedes and a BMW. He shops at Gucci and lives in a mansion in the Hertfordshire stockbroker belt. He parties with other musicians, hobnobs with Bowie and Bjork, poses on catwalks in London and Milan and played the baddie in the Bond film, The World is Not Enough. At 36 success looks easy for Goldie. However, he has spent much of his life conquering his own troubled childhood. His father left soon after he was born. His mother put him into care when he was 3. He remained in a succession of institutions and foster homes until he was 16. Goldie has talked about his upbringing, recently taking part in a Channel 4 documentary on his life, which featured his mother, father, old foster-parents, teachers and other ghosts from the past. When asked about happiness he said this: 'Life in general makes me happy. The one thing I've realized, out of everything, is that I'm a lifer. I'm a person who has seen life, enjoyed it, and hopefully passed some of it on. That's all that really matters to me – passing that life vibe on.'

Goldie's real success isn't his life style – it's his life. It's the fact that life threw so much at him so early and he just kept on handling it. His real triumph is to have kept himself light. He could be bitter. He isn't. He could so easily be miserable, justifying it brilliantly. He could so easily hate the world, felling it owed him. His life could so easily have turned out so differently... When asked if he's proud of everything he's achieved, he says, 'Most of all I'm proud of all my friends for sticking by me – the people that stood there and that are still there.' His immediate response is one of gratitude, noticing what he has got to be thankful for. That's light.

～Harrold, Fiona. The 10-Minute Life Coach: It's All Down To You. Hodder & Stoughton～