Amazing

 Reflection — Yoruba Yogi

Life is interesting. Sometimes people disappear when they don’t understand your path, and they only return when life finally teaches them the same lessons you learned years ago. I’ve noticed that it often takes chaos, loss, or health scares for people to see the value of everything I’ve been saying for over a decade — the importance of listening to your inner consciousness, the importance of health, the importance of silence, discipline, and self-awareness.

There was a time when people looked at me and didn’t understand why I stopped chasing money, why I didn’t run after a job, why I chose yoga, meditation, running, and inner healing instead of the normal path. They thought I was avoiding responsibility, when in truth I was following the only voice that ever saved me: my inner guidance.

I remember the moment I decided to trust that voice — the day I ran day after day until it became 26 miles every single day, the day I watched my hand open back up after marathon 152. That was the moment I knew my consciousness was real. That was the moment everything changed. From that point on, I promised myself I would listen inward, not outward.

Most people couldn’t understand that. They judged what they could not see. But now life is circling back. I can hear it in the words people speak. I can feel it in the way they reach out. Suddenly, the same people who once thought I was lost are realizing that health is everything, peace is everything, consciousness is everything. They are beginning to see what I saw long ago.

And I’ve learned something:

Sometimes it takes pain for people to wake up.

Sometimes it takes loss for people to understand priorities.

Sometimes it takes their own life falling apart before they can recognize the strength in someone they once overlooked.

I no longer take it personally. I don’t hold anger. I don’t chase acceptance. I don’t need validation. I simply see life for what it is: everyone moves at their own pace. Everyone awakens in their own time. Everyone learns differently.

I also understand now that I don’t need to force anything. The truth always finds its way. Even with my own child, I know that one day he will look for me, and when he does, my story will be there — in my videos, my reflections, my journey. Nothing needs to be rushed.

Lately, I’ve realized that people reach for me when life pushes them to the edge, when they finally step into the silence that I have been living in for years. And I accept it with peace. I listen. I reflect. I stay grounded.

Because I’ve moved on from trying to be understood.

I’ve stepped into simply being myself.

Life has a way of bringing everything full circle.

And I am grateful to be standing in this clarity, steady and unshaken, watching it all unfold.

Yoruba Yogi