Wholly Strange and New
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name;—— the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can you remember a moment in your life when you had life in yourself and it was wholly strange and new? Can you remember the moment when you stopped walking a path of someone else, and started cutting your own?
1. Write about that moment. And if you haven’t experienced it yet, let the miracle play out in your mind’s eye and write about that moment in your future.
Not quite the answer to the walking a path of my own but of finding my own path. I have fears still, I have concerns, but I have people stating some most amazing things about me that tell me there is life left in this mind of mine and that I am indeed walking a new path that is mine and not someone else's.
I have heard in the past six weeks "You look very refreshed," "You look as if you have lost weight," "Are you keeping a happy secret," "You look very contented," "A new haircut? A new job?," "You seem invigorated." All of this from making a big change that involves a longer commute and a longer path. It is wholly strange and new.
I think the wholly strange and new is I made a choice and stuck to it. I refused to be somewhere that was a dead end with me trying to hang on. I let go. I also think I'm letting my brain think. I'm not perfect. I'm not without concerns. I'm just me moving my way through life making choices. This was a good one.
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