About 5 years ago,(2004) I got the overwhelming desire to simplify my life.
This occured after staring at 11:11 and other number patterns everywhere I went for a year.
I started working on it, selling this, giving away that, and throwing out the
rest. A huge housecleaning was undertaken and nothing internal or external was untouched. It's almost as if everything that my life was swirled into the air at the same time. Some things came back down but in a new place. Others I never saw again. Some are still in the air.
Come 2007, I had a false start(dry run?) where I reduced my posessions to what fit inside of my car thinking "This is IT!" and took a trip 1200 miles away from home to participate in a meditation for the planet, fairly certain that I would not return home.
Well, I DID return home and started accumulating a few things out of necessity(a few dishes, furniture). Just when I was starting to settle in again(The Universe has a great sense of humor), I met someone(there are no coincidences) and moved across the country and left it all behind again! That was a year ago. I have been very careful since then about accumulating anything or complicating my life any more than necessary.
I recently found myself looking at another move, with the option to move locally. somewhere entirely different altogether, or returning to where I am from. I was seriously considering going back when the Universe said "That's what you think" and smacked me upside the head with what I am looking at as a blessing in disguise(still waiting on the blessing part to manifest itself) So, I made the local move and it appears that I am going to be calling Phoenix my home for a while longer. I am trusting that I am where I am supposed to be and this will be the one thing that will not change.
Change can be very difficult and painful. Facing the unknown, stepping out of your comfort zone, and leaving safety nets behind can be very challenging and intimidating.
There have been plenty of times where I met face to face with fear, and gave it the finger in addition to the times I let it paralyze me or slow me down. I like to think, more often than not, it gets the finger.
The (imagined?) dilemna I am facing now is whether or not to reinvest in creating a life where I am at, or do I stay in perpetual "Ready to go" mode?
Everyone's guidance is going to tell them something different as we all are on our own path and came here to accomplish our own objectives. Mine is telling me that the rate and degree of change will continue to accererate, and I would do well to remain as flexible as possible. Whether that change is on a personal level or collective, I am not sure but I think "both" is the most probable answer.
For now, it's living in the moment as much as possible and taking each day as it comes. I think everything will work out and resolve in the most beautiful way. It's the journey from here to there that we will remember.
