"In Reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them". Phil Donahue
Sorta kinda like flying by the seat of your pants and, boy, do I like that! And the first order of business is, of course, flying; it's really hard for things to happen to us if we're just sitting around doing nothing and that's not to say things still won't happen; I just believe life is far more interesting if we're active, engaged participants.
And the really interesting thing about important things happening when we're not looking for them is that on some level we really ARE looking for them but other things were in the way or we were distracted by something else and then all of the sudden BOOM! here comes what we said we wanted a week ago, a year ago or ten years ago. Quite amazing actually.
Growing up, I was infatuated with California from the landscape of cowboy westerns filmed on location, before my time, to the surf and beach movies of the 60's always hoping I would someday live here.
Eventually, I moved to California just a few weeks shy of my 29th birthday. Fast forward to my late thirties, when I sold my condo in Long Beach and bought a house in the mountains north of Los Angeles. I had barely been living there a month when it all of the sudden dawned on me, the landscape was incredibly similar to what I'd seen watching those old westerns on TV. Come to find out, the area was and continues to be used as a major filming location.
Creepy or not so creepy but in a good way and, at the very least, interesting because, really, I wasn't paying attention. I didn't have any sort of master plan or goal to live in the mountains; it just happened given the California real estate market and my inability to afford a home pretty much anywhere else, but it did happen and when I realized it, I was, like, wow, pretty amazing that something I envisioned and dreamed about when I was a kid could come true in such a pure, unforced way and even though I got that moment - recognized it for it's power - I still struggle with the meantime waiting for more and more moments like that to occur looking for them while not looking for them. A little game of cat and mouse.
So, with a little bit of cheese in-hand, I wander through life doing my best to listen to my heart and connect with my soul.
Not a bad way to go.
About Me
- Larry
- The world loves and needs me! so I write about my world providing quotes of the day with commentary, telling stories and sharing observations authentically and wholeheartedly and in doing so,share my passion for life! It's about "Practical Wellness" having fun doing things in life that inspire and uplift us enough for us to get on out there doing physical things that contribute and promote overall health and well-being. I'm a four-time marathon finisher and,believe it or not, a triathlete and part-time yoga instructor. MS Human Services, BA English, Certificate Drug and Alcohol Abuse Counseling Studies.
1 comment:
That is kind of creepy in a non-creepy way. One of the woo gurus (can't remember which one) did a vision board years ago, and he put a beautiful million dollar home on it. Many years later, after he moved into a nice house, he was unpacking a box with that old vision board in it and realized he had bought the same exact house as was in the picture.
Something similar happened to me. When I first moved to Kansas City, I looked at an apartment that I really, really wanted in the attic of a Victorian home, but I decided it was too much rent. Many years later, I bought the house with the apartment, but didn't realize it until I was moving in.
Some places call to us over and over until we listen!
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