“Be patient as you let life unfold.”
Chances are, you have heard this before. It may be one of the most challenging places
for you as a human to sit if you are impatient, or you like to problem-solve,
or to fix, or take a proactive approach to life’s journey.
As I stood at a light waiting to cross, two skateboarders
screeched to a halt behind me. Suddenly, one of them kept pressing the same
button I had just pressed once for the light to change.
“Dude, she probably already pressed it,” said one of the
boys to his friend.
“Did you press it?” he asked as he looked at me.
“Yes, I did. It may take a while because when I got here the
light had just changed to red.”
The impatient boy kept pushing the button repeatedly several
times, as his friend slapped his wrist telling him to ‘knock it off.’
I giggled to myself, recalling hundreds of times I have
witnessed this from other crosswalks and many an elevator.
“Are you in a hurry to get somewhere? Are you late?” I asked.
Before the boy had a chance to answer, a vintage car just
made a left turn in front of us on the opposing street.
“Whoa… that’s cool!” exclaimed the patient one, as his impatient
friend stood there in awe of what he just witnessed.
“Isn’t it great we were stuck at this light so you could see it? You wouldn’t have seen it if we didn’t have
to wait.”
The patient one smiled and nodded.
The impatient one stood there as if he was having an
epiphany.
The light turned green and suddenly the impatient one did
not take off like a rocket across the crosswalk as he probably would have had
he not seen it. He started to look
around as his friend smirked and walked across holding his board.
My work was done, serving an unexpected purpose.
What was more unexpected was that I had my own epiphany in
that moment. It was as if the Universe
smiled in a multidimensional way.
I had not expected to ‘change’ someone’s thought process in
mid-moment to think about things differently.
That was a gift all on its own, thus it was like a ripple and changed my
perspective about unfoldment, as it was unfolding in said moment.
This is a LINK to life unfoldment.
While this is a normal, everyday event you may pass off as ‘ordinary’
– if you are aware and in the present moment, you might be able to extract
something extraordinary and witness for yourself how things unfold for yourself
as well as others in a flash.
Let’s dive deeper into this pool of the LINK of unfoldment.
Every event in your life is not without some sort of purpose,
even in what seems to be ‘ordinary’ moments.
This thing called ‘medicine from the Universe,’ is always in
the works to deliver exactly what someone else needs, but maybe did not know
how to ask for themselves.
In turn, you get something you need, but it may not always
be delivered in the way you expect.
So let’s pause for a moment to have you ask yourself:
- What daily robotic treadmill of yours hinders where you may miss these kinds of moments?”
- Where do you often find yourself in your ‘present moment’ consciousness?
- How many times have you been aware of moments like this in your everyday life?
- When can you recall something similar that you did not expect?
While I know nothing about those two teen kid strangers,
what I do know is that for a moment the pause button was pressed both literally
and figuratively.
For me, what those two teen kid strangers did not know was
that prior to arriving to the signal, I had asked the Universe for a ‘sign’
that I could make a difference that day.
I laughed, because the Universe has a special sense of humor
in delivering the signal as an actual signal at the signal I was standing at,
as if to bop me over the head with a ton of bricks like…
“Wake up, you asked for a signal and voila’ here it is.”
Just in case I missed it, it was multidimensional and punny
simultaneously, catering to my own Baklava layers and quirky humor in order to
say “this is for you.”
Luckily, I did not miss it… and my ‘pay it forward’ mission
is to share this so that you do not either.
This is part of the ripple that I was destined to share with
you, by writing this blog.
Perhaps the bigger picture was all about sharing this with
you in a serendipitous way to wake you up to take stock of your own moments you may have missed.
Every day you have had more of these kinds of moments than
you even realize.
Trust me – they are there for you at every turn.
Maybe you have been so busy that you have not taken the time
to yet acknowledge a moment like this, brushing it off as something so simple,
and yet so pure and beautiful for your soul to embrace in this way.
This is the stuff life is made of and available to every
human, like a pause button.
So as you take on your day, I hope you will stop to witness
your moments that happen for you in the everyday things.
Take time to appreciate how your life changes, and how you
can change another just by being there, even in ways neither of you expect.
You’ll be given signs and signals along the way … and
sometimes in blatant ways like an actual signal!
Namaste.
