TRANSFORMATION (part 2)

A life crossroad is a point at which, despite resisting the idea of change for a long time, you feel irresistibly being pulled toward another option. The road you’ve been on that you once wanted so badly, is no longer desirable.

For some, it’s so painful that the old path is simply no longer an option. For others, there’s just another option thats been nagging and pulling at their heart for too long. It simply feels that you no longer can stay on the path you’ve been on. It might be a relationship, or a career, or a job, or another location, or another home. For me, I’d been wanting a career change for so long yet my head always found reasons to keep me on the old, safe, alas painful path.

What would happen without the high corporate income? What about benefits? What would my spouse say? My mom? My friends? What would I possibly do differently? How could I go back to school when I had to support and raise my kids and am still paying for my old grad school loan? And even if I could, which direction to go? What if I’m just depressed? What if this is something everyone feels and it’s totally normal? Or am I not grateful enough?

To all that, the me of now would say - of course it feels terrifying. Of course it’s tough. Of course it feels impossible, making big changes is a process, it takes time.

But the old me had no clue, no direction. All I knew was that I was willing to bend in any way I had to only to get out and find out my life’s purpose, only to be truly, vibrantly happy. The old me didn’t know that when we’re scared, we can’t come up with creative solutions.

So, how do we move on towards happiness?

We take a deep breath, we sink into our heart, we acknowledge the pull we’re feeling, and we commit to opening up to our intuition. Little do we know, the transformation, the happiness metamorphosis has began that very moment. The moment of acceptance, of surrendering to our heart, of bending toward hope, is where it all begins.

Unbeknownst to us, our soul’s particles sparked up the rays of joy, and despite the pain of transformation and fear, if we stick to our true Path, the joy will never go away.