This may be way too much information but I have my best, most enlightening thoughts in the shower. It is one of those huge cavernous ones with duel shower heads and really, you just don't want to get out once you are in. For some reason things become clearer for me there. Maybe it is the solitude or the whole cleansing thing. I don't know but honestly, I could solve the world's problems if I had to. But usually I stick to my own and those of my loved ones. Today it was all about me. Thoughts were randomly floating around in my brain, which happens a lot, and I zero in on them and work them through. Which is the beauty I think of being open and present so that when I am faced with something I am able to acknowledge it. So different from when my girls were little. I remember being so wrapped in my head that there were times when through the fog I could hear their tiny voices saying "mommy" and finally would come back to the present. Today my thoughts had to do with being stuck in the past and wanting to move forward to the future. A few years ago, we went out to Las Vegas to visit my mom and dad who retired out there. (yes, I know it's a weird place to go visit Gramma and Grandpa but that explains much about me!) We were at Hoover Dam and there is a point where you can straddle 2 states--Nevada and Arizona. This morning that scene came back to me as I stood there with feet firmly planted in 2 different places and thought that is exactly how I feel about my life right now. One foot is in my past literally and figuratively and the other is in the future and wants to get moving. It is that darn back leg that is almost cemented into place and no matter what I do, it won't budge. I think a better way to look at it is that it doesn't really know what direction it needs to go in. And if it did, how would it get there--to the future. To all the things that swirl inside my head and heart aching to come out as the new me. I am thinking that fear or failure or the fear of failure is the biggest issue for me. How do I make all the changes I need to make and will all those around me be ok with it. As I write this I a little light bulb went off in my head and realize that that is it--how will my family handle it all. I am so use to putting them first that I can't go to that selfish place and put me first for a bit. That is where the change has to come in my head and my heart. For me to know and for them to know that I can be other than what I have been for the last 27 years and still love them as much today in a new role as I have over the years.
Hmm....well that is my homework for the day--to work through that! I knew writing this would get me somewhere!
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