This weekend I am going to spend some time telling you about the last time I fell down! It's not the first time but it has been the longest time I have been down. I have learned a lot in the process and that is what this blog is all about. If you and I can learn from each other it makes getting up easier and the chances of staying up maybe greater.
Going forward after a disappointment, loss, trauma..whatever stopped you in your tracks...laid you flat... can make you think you have lost your stake ...lost your place in the grand scheme of things. And while you may have gotten off track a bit. This is a great time for reflection and deciding indeed what is your place. How are you going to stake it out differently? Maybe that job you lost you never liked. Maybe you knew your relationship wasn't good but it was easier to stay than leave.
I was in one of those once. I live with a man and after about nine months of living together I left. I won't get into all the details now but after two years together I left the relationship. When I told him I was leaving he walked out and never talked to me again...until about a year later when I ran into him on the street. To be honest...if I had seen him coming I would have gone the other way! But suddenly he was standing in front of me. He said he wanted to apologize to me. He said he knew what we had was no good but he would have never left. He thanked me for having the courage to be the one to go.
Getting through that experience helped clarify for me what I wanted in a relationshipnext time. I figuratively staked out my place again...decided how I would decorate my world and move on. It didn't happen right away...but it did happen.
So as we talk about getting up...moving forward...start thinking about what you want your piece of the earth to look like. My space...has a lot of joy and laughter in it...what are you thinking about? Does joy and laughter seem too far away from you right now? Hang in there...I will lead the way.
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