What a week it's been. My life long best friend returned to visit from the west coast. Amazing how your connection with some is so strong that no matter what time passes, or what life throws at you, you just pick right back up where you left off. The old adage that the people and things that are meant to stay in your life will, you won't need to fight for that to happen. My best friend and I took ourselves on a date night to ONE Restaurant in Yorkville. Despite our most fabulous people watching seats on the patio at the kickoff to Toronto International Film Festival, it's as though we were sitting in the basement of her moms house where we spent all waking hours talking, laughing, and sharing dreams. We were engrossed, completely present, and happy.
As life would have it, I had set plans for dinner at an amazing restaurant where I landed a prime time reservation during Film Festival the next evening. After a last minute cancellation and a million faltering plans, I decided to embrace the idea that it wasn't meant to be that evening, it was just too forced. Interestingly, a theory I've really been applying to so much of my life lately. I just knew, it wasn't going to happen. Rather than fight it with continued attempts to make last minute plans, I resorted to spending a quiet night alone, knowing my next few weeks would be insane. I called and ordered takeout from my local favourite restaurant. A friend called, she was going to a workshop in the city and asked me to join. I declined but offered her to park in my building and to reconnect after for a drink.
I walked down to the parking lot to let my friend in, no make-up, jeans a tshirt and flip flops, something in me understood everything had perfectly lined itself up. I threw my hands up and agreed to go to the seminar. We picked up my takeout which was conveniently around the corner!?! It was just meant to be. The workshop that night was about speaking your truth, standing in your power, embracing all that you already are,being present, and the incredible power within each of us to manifest everything we want in our lives when we are willing to surrender to our true self. Sounds easy right? Until you start asking yourself the tough questions about what you currently hold as your truth. Is the vision you have of life really yours? Or have you been programmed by the life, experience and people that have brought you to this point. Have you really taken the time to reach within and ask what it is that your heart desires?
In a 2 hour call with my best friend again tonight, we laughed and reminisced about the plans and visions we had of our perfect lives. We reflected on how much holding onto those visions as our truth has led to disappointment. We questioned ourselves and each other about something as simple as whether or not we even believed marriage is what we see as the utmost value in our futures or if that is the idea we have been raised with, and if a loving and committed relationship could suffice? The reality is, whatever that answer is today, may not be our truth tomorrow...would it all be happier and easier if we cold simply embrace the moment as every cliche and quote suggests, and accept that change is the truth. We are not the same person we were from one moment to the next, we continue to grow and expand into higher versions of ourselves, with new wisdom, experience and visions. What was true for us yesterday may not be true for us today.
Perhaps holding on to yesterday's truth is the root of today's disappointment. If it really is all about perspective, Shakespeare had it right:
"There is nothing either good or bad. But thinking makes it so"
Embrace the moment, not the analysis of it 😊
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