transformation happens in one fail swoop, but do we have the hearts and minds to pay attention?
a dear friend posed this to me a couple days ago while i was finalizing my goodbye/thank you letters to my previous bosses and simmering in my transition over espresso. i find this question ominous and brilliant. yet troubling, i suppose.
do we have the hearts and minds to pay attention?
do we?
is that why so many things seem to pass us by? because we are simply not paying attention.
my hope is that i will not be so adrift or so caught up that i cannot see the transformation in front of me.
let me be engaged in my world around me.
allowing my heart and my mind to fully absorb what it is that surrounds me.
Showing posts with label transition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transition. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2012
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
on moving.
transitions are something.
i recently moved. moved to asheville. it all happened very fast, like a whirlwind. decisions made. boxes packed. goodbyes said. and then to new beginnings.
i left behind my favorites. my favorite city with my favorite favorite people to try something new. i was given an opportunity for change and i took it. i know that many don't understand, but when you know you need it, you take it. you leap. i leapt.
i was becoming stagnant at home. i was not unhappy but i wasn't moving forward. if i may be cliche for a moment, life is too short and i am too young to be stuck. and one morning i woke up and felt the truth of that in my bones.
and i chose. i chose to leave.
and although i am sometimes lonely, sad, unhappy, worn out, i know in the deepest part of me that i needed this. not necessarily asheville, but i needed a change. a new breath. a challenge for myself.
i have needed the push to go and s t r e t c h myself. and i am fully aware that i might hate it hear and miss home and on and on but i had to leave, even if its simply for a season.
i think it is necessary to challenge your feelings of comfort, then you will know what is real.
so here i sit. here. in a new city, new apartment, new job, new faces. i am the "new girl" again.
here i will begin again.
i recently moved. moved to asheville. it all happened very fast, like a whirlwind. decisions made. boxes packed. goodbyes said. and then to new beginnings.
i left behind my favorites. my favorite city with my favorite favorite people to try something new. i was given an opportunity for change and i took it. i know that many don't understand, but when you know you need it, you take it. you leap. i leapt.
i was becoming stagnant at home. i was not unhappy but i wasn't moving forward. if i may be cliche for a moment, life is too short and i am too young to be stuck. and one morning i woke up and felt the truth of that in my bones.
and i chose. i chose to leave.
and although i am sometimes lonely, sad, unhappy, worn out, i know in the deepest part of me that i needed this. not necessarily asheville, but i needed a change. a new breath. a challenge for myself.
i have needed the push to go and s t r e t c h myself. and i am fully aware that i might hate it hear and miss home and on and on but i had to leave, even if its simply for a season.
i think it is necessary to challenge your feelings of comfort, then you will know what is real.
so here i sit. here. in a new city, new apartment, new job, new faces. i am the "new girl" again.
here i will begin again.
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