It is #WisdomWednesday and today’s blog topic is storms, not weather wise but otherwise. That is just my own quirky little way of trying to write a cute post however, one that has meaning.
We often sit and sulk because once again a storm has come through our life and it is totally disrupting everything we worked so hard to accomplish. We are always questioning why it always seems to happen to us but I have to tell you, instead of asking the endless questions which will almost always lead you down a dead end path or you will wind up right back in the lap of depression, stop and just figuratively look, watch and listen to the storm. Stop the questioning and just take in the meaning.
Sometimes a storm is not meant to disrupt your life at all. The storms I am talking about are in my opinion, meant for two things, either to teach you a lesson or to cleanse your existence. Although a storm can in fact destroy, the destruction does not necessarily mean you will be destroyed but maybe something in your life needs destroying. .
The first segment that I mentioned is when a storm is meant to teach you a lesson. A storm can actually show you what you should not be doing or what you are doing wrong. For example, you may have chosen to take a certain path in life by going back to college and studying biology. You work like a crazy, always studying, forming study groups, getting tutors and pulling all nighters testing yourself. Then your big test comes and you fail. Not only do you fail, you find out that your new lab sessions involve dissecting animals which absolutely horrifies you. It is as if a tornado has come through your life and is destroying everything you have worked so hard for. However, if you stop yourself from crying and stressing out over everything that is happening, you will see that the math portion of biology is what you excel at and actually love. You also realize that dissecting animals for you seems a horrible task that you know you will not be able to do and furthermore, you realize that the reason for your failure is because you cannot commit to memory things that just do not interest you. So while listening to this storm rather than questioning it, you come to the realization that math is your strong point as well as the fact that you really enjoy it and therefore it would be in your best interest to switch majors before you waste anymore time or money on something you do not enjoy. You see, although the storm may have destroyed your current path in life, your willingness to listen rather than question it brought you to the realization that in actuality, you were on the wrong path and thanks to the storm you were able to change course before you wasted anymore time.
The second segment Is when a storm comes as a cleansing. It is meant to wash a nightmare away that not even you realized you needed it because you constantly question what is happening rather than watching and listening. For example, you may be in a terrible relationship. The relationship is so bad that you are numb to the mental and emotional abuse you endure and therefore it has become part of your life. One day a storm blows into your life in the form of police coming to your house because your partner is so high on drugs that even you who has put up with the behavior for so long can no longer handle the situation. The storm is so fierce because there is now a constant police presence as well as court appearances and the constant guilt in your head. If you just stop questioning everything and listen to the storm, you will allow the storm to wash it all out of your life. Let it happen even if it brings pain and sadness because the short amount of time the pain and the sadness will last does not compare to the rest of your life living free of a nightmare that encapsulated you for decades. Let it storm so that the cleaning can begin.
I hope that you were able to understand the point that I was trying to make. In other words, just because something is considered bad, it does not mean that you cannot find the rainbow that is lingering within and that blooms afterwards. For today’s reading choice, I am recommending a book that I have suggested before called The Four Agreements. If you have not already read this one, check out your local library to see if you can borrow a copy. If this is not an option, here is a link to get your own copy from Amazon >>> https://amzn.to/2VqDUsX
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