About a year ago, I posted this piece called"Pick A Lane Buddy"which dealt with a number of issues, but for the most part, it revolved around two concerns.
First, was my ongoing lack of motivation/writer's block/burnout at that time which pushed me to ultimately dread even logging into WordPress. Secondly, was this sense in life that I needed to find a different path; or what my path in life should be, or the path the universe had planned for me, which I hadn't been able to find or discover yet. Both points sort of tie into each other.
Here are a couple of paragraphs from that post:
Without going into a ton of over-examination and counseling office analysis, it feels like I'm not on a path of any sort. If by some strange coincidence I am on some random path, I can confidently say, it is definitely a path I don't want to be on.
I'm pushing myself to find a path. What the path is or looks like I have no concrete concept or idea of. All I know is it needs to be a path. My path.
So, that encapsulates what was happening just about a year ago.
What happened then?
Simply, we flipped our lives 180 degrees.
Feeling that you're not on the right path or you need a find a different path in life, is in an abstract way - still a path. The path you've forged or continue to stumble down, knowing it isn't where you are supposed to be is a path - a huge life and soul-sucking path, but nevertheless, it's still a path.
If that's true, what can a person do?
Well, to quote a title from the recently departed Jerry Lee Lewis - "Whole Lotta Shakin Goin' On"
We took the "whole shakin'" thing and shook our life up good - real good.
In fact, we shook it up and simply jump off our path mid-winter of this year(2022); spinning our life 180 degrees; landing in some metaphorical field that had an infinite number of life paths leading from it. My job was/is to work intimately with the universe to soul-search and forge the path my life is supposed to or was/is destined to be on.
What was this massive path jump and 180-degree spin?
We sold our house; I quit my job and we moved halfway across Canada to set up a new "old homestead" on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.
The point is, we may reach times in our life when we are simply in a rut. We know for a fact, that this IS NOT the path I'm supposed to be on. There is NO FEELING of, "geez - I feel in a rut or this is not where I'm supposed to be." You know that you can say with complete certainty, "yup - deep rut here and not on the path the universe has for me." No question - no doubt.
So, go do something about it.
"Go big or go home" - although not a huge fan of cliches - the key is to "do something" and in my recent experience the "go big" half of the cliche is .......well "big; huge."
But - don't go home..... go big!
Make it so fu@king big, that there is no turning back.
Science backs up this idea of doing something to make changes in your life.
Newton's first law of physics states - "every object(you) will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line(the rut or not the path I'm supposed to be on) unless compelled to change its state by the action(do something about it) of an external force(you doing something)"
Hard to argue with dear old Issac on this one.
Do something.
Waiting and hoping(for what may have been months or years) that the mucky and stinky rut you're in or the soul-sucking and emotionally draining path your life is on will divinely resolve itself is in many respects the definition of craziness.
If you want to change, then you need to do something about it. You need to drive out of the rut; do whatever needs to be done to forge the path you desire for YOUR OWN LIFE.
Fast forward from November 2021 to November 2022 - how's going then?
It's like a soul-draining light-canceling curtain has been lifted from the window of my life.
Daylight now flows and streams into my soul, warming and filling to overflowing my emotional and mental wellness buckets. Before there was no canvas on which to paint. Now, there is a massive blank stretched canvas on which I can paint; discover; reveal my life. My path.
Go big or go home........but don't go home.
No excuses.
--as always with love--
--- get outdoors; find inspiration; discover yourself ---
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