Travelling Signs

Clear Signs To Me That I'm Totally Off My Path

• frequent dreams of losing my wallet or of being a passenger in a vehicle that's being driven carelessly by someone else
• deep breathing comes only in the form of deep sighs
• every driver in front of me is an uber-asshole
• in fact, everyone around me is suddenly cursed with a severe case of incompetence
• complaints live in a permanent speech bubble over my head
• not looking at myself in the full-length mirror after getting out of the shower
• in the company of others, smiling often

Clear Signs To Me That I'm Slightly Off My Path

• locking keys in the car while on a date I knew wouldn't lead to a positive relationship
• getting a speeding ticket while leaving a second date with the same guy...sigh...
• changing my outfit several times while getting ready for work
• misplacing my keys
• driving too aggressively
• noticing the faults of myself and others frequently
• hiding parts of my body while looking in the mirror after getting out of the shower
• in the company of others, smiling often (hmmm...pattern here?)

Clear Sign That I Am Solidly on My Path

• getting an email from my closest girlfriend that says...
  
  

   “Please join me on the first annual “No More Fuckin' Around Tour 2012”. Less thinking, more jumping into what we were put on this planet to do. Let's read the book Danette got us each for Christmas, bring the journal Julie got us last year and meet together before the clock strikes 2012 to set out our intentions, commit to breaking our patterns and supporting each other along the way. The inaugural quote for this tour is...

  
  

  "Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it."

Will you join me?"  

How fortunate am I?  Who could refuse an invitation like this?    

Eyes wide open on the path to live, breathe and to deeply suck all the juice from this experience of life, pain, pleasure and all.   At this moment, my path is what is right under my feet and it is time to accept the challenge, accept the support that is being offered and to accept that I am on the precipice of a life lived out loud.  No more excuses, no more fuckin' around.  

Let's get 'er done!

Oh, and when I looked in the mirror this morning after my shower, I loved what I saw!