The defining moment in my life that shifted the way I was thinking...and brought me to ubuntu.
Great question. Tough to answer.
In the sense of living and breathing and working and playing.
I mean it's such a simple thing.
To simply believe that you're on the right path, meeting the people designed to come into your life, taking the right choices, the right chances, designed to make you who you are and who you need to be.
Haaaa. Nothing simple about that at all. But it's what we have to do in this crazy little life - just move forward, one foot in front of the other, and believe that things will make sense when we look back to connect the dots (I believe a brilliant mind named Steve Jobs said something like that once).
A really good girlfriend of mine told me that you have to make a decision and never look back.
Well, I've looked back on a lot of decisions, pondered them, wondered, and point blank thought way too effing much about them.
This one, I'm not looking back at all.
I talked about wanting to live in B.C. for years. I can now do yoga on my balcony, overlooking the beautiful scenery, hear dogs barking, see horses galloping, and just overall take in the vineyards, orchards and beautiful weather. I was slightly anxious about moving because I didn't know anyone, yet I'm on Day 10 and I had a beautiful weekend with good times, a great group of ladies, and it was all made complete with a birthday dinner, plum pie and a chorus of Happy Birthday's sung for me. I have hiking and a volleyball team to enjoy. I think the moral of the story that I'm trying to tell is this - put one foot in front of the other, take a leap of faith and just believe.
Something out there does the rest.
Taking on all this new-ness makes me feel like I'm travelling again...but yet this time it's my home. Hey, it could be for months or it could be for years. Yet, as I realize that I belong nowhere, yet anywhere, I know that truly my heart is where my home is and taking it here doesn't mean I forget those at home...it just means that I learn a new way to be alone and yet with them all the time.
"A ship is meant to sail,
it has to venture into the risky and unknown waters
once in a while
because in safe harbours you do not
make new discoveries."
it has to venture into the risky and unknown waters
once in a while
because in safe harbours you do not
make new discoveries."
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