A funny thing happened on the way to the sunset...


Let me tell you what I learned last year. I learned how to love Life. I learned that a little appreciation goes a long way. I learned that it's a choice to Let Love Win. I learned to expect great things. The great unexpected things in 2017 were astounding. A trip to Europe! What? Back to Costa Rica. Four months in the States again. Back to Costa Rica again. Serious book writing efforts.
Guess what happened so far in 2018?? I manifested something that I could only dream of last year. And I have grand hopes that it only gets better. It is, after all, only January 4th.
So it started in the last week of December. I made a new friend. I randomly offered to do a little writing project with him. He gave me a book to read that he thought I might like, even though we just met. The book was so fantastic I had to put down the good book I was already reading. I'm so in love with this book, sentence by sentence, loving it more with every flip of the page. All good, right? But it gets better.
I was told the author of the book wrote about a small town in Costa Rica. The town I'm in. She still lives here. That's cool, I say to myself. Then we go to watch the sun set with some friends. There is a group there, and we know 2 of the people. A bit later I go for a walk with one of the friends and I talk about this fantastic book. She says yep, the author was sitting next to her just a few minutes ago. I was sitting next to my friend who was sitting next to the author. What? No way. My friend is delighted that I'm so enthralled with her friend's book. We went back to the group, but the author Juls Amor had left.
Another few sunsets and we are on the beach again and my dear friend has Juls come over and say hi to me. Totally amazing. She's great with the book and wonderful in real life too. I feel like this is all kinds of wonderful and I keep reading. The whole time I feel like a little kid who puts glasses on for the first time, and sees things so clearly. Not even knowing how blurry their vision was until they have the corrective lens. The book is so brutally honest that it is 100% inspiring to me. The book helps me see that I have not given myself permission to be me, to really be me. It's about becoming aware of our internal programming from parents, society, and religion. Awareness is a great liberator! I feel like all of 2017 set me up to be ready to internalize everything in this book. The profound shift in my perspective has been near delirious.
At one point I found an email address in the book. So I sent an email to the author. I said it was nice to meet her on the beach, and I had to share with her how much the book means to me. Who knows if the address still works, I had to express my gratitude that she took the effort to show what real honesty to yourself looks like. I tell myself that I won't bug her to death with every gush of insight that I receive, and act like we are best friends, just because her book feels like my new BFF.
The whole time I can't wait to get my own copy of the book that I adore. Then my first new friend says: I'm giving you the book. Obviously it was meant for you. Wow.
Another sunset or so and we again walk up to the sunset group to spread our blanket out to wait for the day to go out in a fiery blaze of oranges and pinks. Juls walks up to me to tell me she received the email. We talk for a bit. She tells me that she appreciates my appreciation of her. It was like the character of my favorite book just walked up to me. Wait. She did!! The book is about her life. So wild! I am blown away. I feel so blessed.
The book is the voice of one courageous woman saying every courageous thing that she can think of. And I know I have a voice too. I started to write last year, until December 1st. Then I let those internal voices talk me out of my love of writing. I am starting to write again. I'm starting to get those little plot line inspirations again. I am so thankful for being reminded that I am good enough. It seems so simple, yet it does not always seem so easy.
I encourage you to try it. Say out loud: "I am good enough!" There, doesn't that feel wonderful? If it feels one iota less than wonderful or comfortable, I now encourage you to read her book too. I hear it can be found through Amazon. (I found the Amazon link, and put it below)




https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1503226824/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1503226824&linkCode=as2&tag=julsamor-20






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