Elizabeth’s story was truly eye opening. She described her
life as “going as planned.” She had done
everything right, everything that was expected. And, she was finally at the
point where she should have been begun a family.
One problem, she -like many others- felt restless. She would
ended up on the floor of her bathroom every night around 3 am, crying. She said
something didn’t feel right. She needed more..
and she was fully aware that what she was doing was easy. And what she
was about to do, terribly difficult.
During the process of her two year divorce, she found herself praying and crying in one of the busiest post offices in New York. During
this session, the universal voice that had been talking to her told her to go
out into New York and find something beautiful.
She thought to herself, “Beautiful? In New York?” But, none
the less, she said felt resilient and determinded. Upon stepping foot out into
the big city to begin her mission, there in the street was a line of elephants
all dressed up and festive.
It would be a year later that she set out on her ultimate
quest. Any hard times she hit through that year were often greeted with
Elephants, on sweaters, necklaces,
newspapaers. Always a friendly reminder that, while her “planned life” was
ending, but her real journey was just beginning.
One of her connecting examples is a story of a mother, 28, 5
kids, married. Again, sounds typical. Until one day, her husbands decides to
never come home. That day, that women did a few things, got a job, and decided
she would see the world by putting a $1 in a coffee can every day. She also
decide that her life wouldn’t stay that way. 20 years later,
empty-nested, she cashed in those coffee cans and bought a freight
ticket to spend a year going around the world.
Now the surprise isn’t in that she did it, she had promised
herself she would.
It is in the fact that her kids were shocked because they
could never have imagined that that would have been one of her dreams. They
hadn’t ever thought that their mother wanted anything more than to provide for
them. (I know I am definitely guilty of
this.)
The lesson in this,
is listen to the universal voice. If something feels wrong, it is because you
are meant to be doing else.
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