I duly collected some magazines which I thought may offer a visual idea of what she would like to see in her life.
I was a little hesitant of joining in, because I am notoriously bad at forward planning. I love and embrace my spontaneous nature.
I would merely be the facilitator of her process instead
Come the day, she cancelled.
I put the things aside.
The following evening, a curious part of me awakened.
What, I wondered, would my vision look like? I had no basic idea - thought if I paged through enough magazines - and I had a really good mixture of titles, I would find just the right pictures.
Paged through the first one. Saw a few possibilities, but as soon as I gave the picture more than a momentary glance, I would think - well, yes, perhaps, but....not really all that important.
By the time I got to the fourth magazine, I started to be concerned. How come there was nothing that really appealed? Who am I if I have no idea what I want and where I want to go? Did I know me at all?
I then found a title of a story which had the words 'paths less travelled' in the text, so I claimed that for my board. It resonated so well with me.
Still no pictures appealed to me. Oh, it would be nice to have a home with a sea view. A luxury motor vehicle. You know what I mean. But I did not want them enough to make them part of my vision.
I popped onto a facebook group to share my quandary with some others. I started out saying that I could not find pictures, who am I, am stuck, need help blah blah blah. But before I posted it, I realised that those three little words were all I required!
I grabbed the glue, stuck the words down in the centre
Paths Less Travelled
grabbed the glitter glue and drew paths leading all over the world - and squiggles depicting waves on the water, circles as wheels that would take me where I wanted to go, and all the words that seemed important to me
Yes! Love! Exciting! Yes! (again) Together! Fun! Adventure! New!
Now, to be honest, the artist in me is somewhat dormant. That is new-speak for being pretty darned useless at art! What is in my head cannot be translated onto paper, because I am too impatient to get it all done! Sorry, not impatient - spontaneous and eager!
The end result is beautiful. Not pretty, mind you. But is came from my Heart and is therefore beautiful.
I had no idea what I was creating in that moment - well, in five minutes - it is not exactly a Work of Art, as such!
It only took FIVE days to work. Five days later I met a wonderful new friend. It is Yes, exciting, fun, adventure, new and Yes, together there is Love.
Amazing.
The Path Less Travelled for me has many layers.
It is the depth of the connection. The overwhelming enormity of meeting a Soul Mate. It is almost beyond my comprehension. I am coming to terms with it. Slowly. Savouring it.
It is learning to trust. To trust myself. To trust my intuition and good judgement. To trust a man. Indeed, to trust anyone other than me.
This Soul Mate lives elsewhere in the world. Meeting him would require me to follow a path I have never travelled before.
I look forward to that meeting. Wherever. Whenever.
What I have learned along the way is that although it only seemed to take FIVE days, it really took much longer than that. Allowing myself to open my Heart to another, to get it out of the fortress in which it has been locked for more years that I care to admit, has taken a long time. It surely has taken me all my life to get to this point.
Now I am ready to create my next vision board.
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