Another blog post borne from the encouragement of "That's what she said," an inspiring blog link up/series that uses the words of women as inspiration for writing blog posts.
If my life were encapsulated into one sentence, I feel like it would be something short and sweet: “Almost but not quite.”
I know there are people who would try to cajole me and disagree with me filling me with instances and illustrations of “absolutely yes, quite” but I would feel compelled to either retreat (not quite) or share with them the hopes and aspirations still idling just beyond my fingertips.
“So close yet never crossing the threshold” might be a slightly different version or perhaps, “Still to be born, fully.”
Strange, because I am ambitious and passionate and energetic. I am goal oriented and alive and inspiring.
Yet it has been the “not quite” that has been essentially the guiding anti-force in my life.
I’ve felt exiled from the people and things who and which are the most significant to me so I have been wandering around for quite a while. Yesterday it hit me, probably for the multiplied time, “I am the one who exiled me, no one else did this… no one else exiled me…” and like anything else, I could tweak this into a rhapsodic “Woe is I” and I can also tweak it into a “so, what shall I do differently now in order to deliver myself from the exile I have so skillfully created?”
This is where the juice is squeezed and lives a lively existence.
Instead of diving deep without acting upon those discoveries, I need to get better at applying what I learn on the deep diving expeditions. I need to be a better curator of my own life experiences. “Have a cool moment, write or create from it and then love it into a grander existence rather than live it, create from it, move along to the next.”
I wrote this in seven minutes because that is what fit my life right now.
That’s two extra moments than normal.
Here is my seven minute version.
“I’ve lived a life of almost and not quite; the next phase begins now.”
That feels exceptionally fine.
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