12/23/2013 0 Comments IcebergPhoto is courtesy of the Ministry of Health, Samoa website. (I just typed "water" into Google image search and found this most appealing.)
You know when people keep saying that when you see an iceberg hovering above the ocean surface, you really only see 1/8 of its actual size? For some reason, this image has always given me the chills. This is likely because each time I am reminded of it, I find myself aware of the fact that I have no idea what to expect from the remaining 7/8. There is too much unknown to possibly conceptualize. Same thing goes with change. The fear one can have of facing the change happening in front of them may feel like facing the daunting task of visualizing (or attempting to visualize) 7/8 of an iceberg. Whether it is a death in the family, moving to another city, or losing touch with people you may have been very close with, going through the change may feel like your feet have suddenly lost contact with the ground. You are forced to navigate weightlessly, like you are under water. But, it is always good to remember that you will in time gain the steady weight again (I'm sorry, it just sounded like I'm talking about gaining weight, something that inevitably happens to all of us during the holidays. Okay...now I'm digressing). If you make the choice to take the change in a healthy way and take it one day at a time to accept the shift and learn how you can grow from it, you will find back the ground and slowly conceptualize the remaining bulk of the iceberg. Even if the idea of a dominating size of ice is silently taking over the body of water, you can learn to see it as nothing other than part of the ocean and its composition. I hope I have not gone too far with the iceberg metaphor, and if I have I sincerely apologize. More importantly, however, I hope this blog post has made sense in terms of how change can be seen and handled. Much love, ~~MC P.S. The reason why I did not put a picture of an iceberg in this blog post is simply because, as briefly mentioned, I have a strong fear of icebergs and looking at them. Seriously, like I could not even bring myself to type "iceberg" in Google image search. But, I will see this as an exciting challenge (that is, of little by little visualizing the iceberg).
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12/22/2013 0 Comments Leap Towards the BetterPhoto above is courtesy of Coffee Shop Journal.
I had a small, very small epiphany earlier this morning. In the midst of my daily habit of having internal conversations with myself (I'm not crazy I swear), I realized that in the past several months I have become a better version of myself because of people who have treated me horribly. (Obviously not only because of these people, but partly for sure.) By "better version of myself," I mean after all the drama and during the dark-place-where-you-try-to-get-over-the-end-of-the-friendships phase, I took a hard look at myself and figured out what I needed to do. I didn't want to come out of the phase a broken person with the permanent fear of making new friends, because that would only make me a paralyzed person for the rest of my life. I instead wanted to come out a better person who grew from the experiences and the lessons drawn out of them. With that, I slowly but surely moved on. Also, one thing that surprised me in the process was how I also became a better version of myself from the new habits I developed unexpectedly. An example is my now-nearly-obsessive habit of writing poetry. After a bad experience I had with one of my ex-friends, my instinct told me to write a poem. I found that it helped me get over the pain and gradually move on with my life. Before I knew it, I bought myself a poetry journal and since then I've been writing poetry almost daily, during good times and bad. There will be cases in your life where those who have treated you the worst will push you to make a leap towards the better. Though, of course, whether you leap towards the better or towards the worse depends on your own personal choice. ~~MC 12/4/2013 0 Comments Buried TreasureAbove photo: Courtesy of Deborah May's Blog.
Have you ever sat down and jotted a list of ideas--Ideas about literally everything and anything? Have you jotted down, say, a list of 20 ideas every day? This is a new habit I picked up recently. I was inspired to do it after reading an article on BuzzFeed that had a list of habits to help you drastically change your life in 5 years (so many lists...). The main purpose of the 20-Ideas-A-Day thing is for you to clear your mind and to perhaps discover something about yourself you were not aware of before...and perhaps to uncover buried treasure. And, by "buried treasure," I mean mental treasure. Basically, revolutionary, creative, unprecedented ideas of how you feel you can change the world. The imaginary light bulb may go off and you'll suddenly realize how you will want to leave your print on the world after your precious time on Earth is over. The ideas you write down can lead you to find out what certain career you want to make for yourself. They can set you on a path to complete self-knowledge (which will probably be a very long path, but definitely one worth traveling on). They can even launch you on a series of adventures where you sample on new experiences that challenge the way you think and feel about the world around you. Or, maybe not. You will never know until you try. So, sit down when you have some free time, when you are dressed in your boyfriend's pajama pants or after you have put the kids to bed. Take out a pen and paper/journal, and jot down 20 ideas about anything. Literally anything. This is probably one of the few chances you have in your daily life to really let your intuition be the dominant voice, so really take advantage of it! Do this every day, or at least as often as you can (for example, I do it when I'm on the bus or at home at the end of the day). Maybe you have buried treasure you have yet to dig out from the sand (or mud, however you want to imagine the metaphor)... :) ~~MC |
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