All too often there comes a point in one's life where things just cannot continue. You can't continue, you refuse to continue walking the same path. It isn't just the neediness of those around you, the people who slam the door in your face, the forgotten birthdays, the lack of engaging. It is seeing the hit and run messages, the last minute connections, the intensity all around you. You feel enormous compassion, absolute kindness and you remember yourself in the equation. You wonder why you allowed it to continue this long. You say. STOP.
Within each of us is an aspect of self-leadership. Sometimes we access it, sometimes we are running too hard and too far away from it to realize it. A friend recently inquired "why don't people engage?"
It was hard to respond to him without hours of discourse.
"Because they can," I said.
"There is too much focus on the self and not enough of it. How is that for an answer?"
It is all in the balance. Sometimes we muster the courage to revisit a painful event. That happened with a friend this past weekend. A well known abductee. A UFO abductee. He has not been able to even view the film depicting his life, his story much less return to the area where this occurred. Until this weekend. Those events are stories for a time when it is no longer so painful to remember. This weekend, along with a few of his friends, he visited the site of his world renown abduction. Courage as Dan Rather, so eloquently reminded us. Courage.
For all of us who muster the courage to create a new path, engage with another, give a hug for no specific reason other than to feel close, I say COURAGE.
Leaves continue to fall as the rains wash away what no longer serves each of us. Will you find a way to be your own self-leader?
I hope and pray you find a way. Because the ultimate task is really simple. It is all about. Saving you.
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