The feeling that I'm on the right path is getting stronger every day this week and now it seems the universe wants to let me know I'm on the right track... to where... I still have no idea! This week has been amazing, but to fully understand it, I've got to go back to the beginning... when I was maybe 5 or 6. Don't worry, I won't take all day... there are a few bruised knees I won't bother mentioning. You don't necessarily have to follow along, but I need to really see the progression for myself... so come with me if you'd like.
When I was very young, I had a really good friend. She had this older brother who was kind of a pain in the butt and not the nicest brother I've ever met. He became obsessed with music very early on and finally stopped throwing pebbles at us and I (for reasons I couldn't fathom at the time) missed the attention. Of course I still thought boys had cooties, but if they ever found a cure... he was the one I wanted to hang out with. :) It was one of my first memorable crushes. It was also one I never mentioned.... not ever... to anyone! I was sure the little men in white coats would come take me away if anyone ever knew I had a crush... on a boy!!!
Flash forward to college. Music has been a steady part of my life and is now one of my minors. I am immersed in the world of arts in a way I never have been before and loving it. My taste in boys has changed drastically and although I appreciate musical talent, I don't want to date musicians... they're strange after all! The boy from my childhood has vanished completely from memory and... good news... there are male business majors as far as the eye can see. I get involved with the college radio station (and a few of those business majors in my spare time) and discover genres of music I didn't even know existed. I am comletely in my element... except I hate school. I had wanted to go to an arts school and ended up at a 4-year university instead. My parents had told me this was a compromise, but I saw right through that!
Flash forward again to last year... see... I told you it would be quick. I now have 4 kids, a man I love, a "career" as an administrative assistant that is going well but leaving me completely unfulfilled and a Facebook page. I got the Facebook page to reconnect with some high school friends... our 20th reunion is coming up. I reconnect with my childhood friend (who is just as beautiful inside and out) and her brother (who has gone on to have an amazingly successful career on the business side of the music industry) on Facebook. Don't worry... this isn't going to become some horrid Maury first-love reunion... the crush is gone and I have no designs on the brother whatsoever! All I can say is that he has turned out to be a nice guy and we've had a few quick and extremely plutonic correspondences in the last year.
Then the unthinkable happens and I get laid off. I say unthinkable because I'd never been laid off before and never considered that to be a possibility. But, I tend to look at these kind of things as the universe kicking my butt into gear and saying "it's time for you to get moving in another direction"... so I'm not too upset. I do however wish the universe would be kind enough to provide a map when it does this, as I'm not accusomed to wandering blindly in the dark. But with no map, no compass, no direction... I head out into the unknown. And here is where I've been for the last 8 months.
These past couple weeks, the universe has taken pity on me and decided to at least provide a few signs that I am on the correct path. I now believe the universe sent me that first crush so I would take notice all those years ago and remember this other human being (my friend's brother), because he is pivotal in all that has happened recently. It is through him that I learned about the webinar series I'm attending. Through the webinar, I have met some amazing individuals that actually think like me (sorry to you all... there is no known cure and I'm pretty sure it's worse than cooties). Then tonight the real coincidences hit... cue the Twilight Zone music!!! I met an individual through a post by the webinar hosts... who knows a friend of mine (who has nothing to do with the webinar series) that I know through my boyfriend... and who also somehow knows my friend's brother... and who also writes poetry (like I do) and plays music... and finally, who I am strangly feeling I was somehow meant to meet. Again, there is no romance here... he is married and I am with the man of my dreams... but somehow all these unrelated pieces of my life are fitting together in a way they never have before and that is making me sit up and take some notice.
I don't understand how any of this relates to my path and I have no idea if any of the people mentioned here will continue to accompany my journey, but somehow this amazing interconnectedness has given me hope that the destination of my journey will be made clear to me sooner rather than later. I now have the universal awareness that things are coming together... the path is right... and for the first time in a long time I am no longer afraid of what is ahead. Bring it on!!!
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