Monday, June 14, 2004
"I would rather live in a world
where my life is surrounded by
mystery than live in a
world so small that my
mind could comprehend it."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Have you ever just thought to yourself . . . "I must have the worst timing . . . ever?!?" I have a lifelong friend who, although we should have followed a different path in our relationship, we had (or is that have?) the worst timing ever! How can the cosmos conspire against two people who are the other half that makes a whole? Yet, time after time, after time, it seems as if we are merely two pawns in a giant game of life.
I saw a movie once and, incredibly, being the videophile that I am, I simply can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but it goes something like this . . . a couple meet, "connect," and lose each other through some contrived cinema happenstance. The movie is a series of uncomfortable events with them just-missing one another in a random succession of situations - such as one stepping onto an elevator as one steps off the next car, doors opening and closing in choreographed perfection; one getting into a cab as a cab pulls up behind the first and the other gets out of the second cab; and so on, and so on.
I read a book several years ago which changed my perspective on feeling sad about our situation. At least, for snippets of time throughout our lives, we have connected on so many levels that reach a spiritual connection that cannot be destroyed during the absences. This book, which I highly recommend to anyone who is struggling with feelings that they missed certain chances in life, will put things into a different acuity. The book is entitled, Only Love Is Real: A Story of Soulmates Reunited by Brian L. Weiss, M.D., and is a fascinating read that will leave you contemplating even more.
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension,
and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in
another. The past, present,
and future mingle and pull us backward,
forward, or fix us in the present.
We are made up of layers, cells,
constellations."
- Anais Nin
(c) 2004 A Southern Belle's Life
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