There is a solution. If I could lift an inner shell of myself that contained all my inconvenient history right out of the top of my head, the gloppy feeling would fly out. Maybe land in a splatter somewhere on a needy scalp and mug as a toupee. And the heart would go back to playing in rain puddles or starring in a Disney movie.
It is interesting that love stories are often about "heartbreak." The phrase is a cliche, which all the writing snobs tell you not to use. But why not use what is apt and suited? This logic has all the sensibility of say, when I gotta go to the bathroom, not using that bathroom because everyone else uses it. Instead, I run around looking for a less used bathroom. And this is considered superior thinking. Just saying, it's ridiculous reasoning. I'm still in a bathroom. And heartbreak is exactly that, whether or not it has fancier adjectives to describe it.
A rose is still a rose...Now why try to come up with something better than that?
Hang on to your cliches.
Let's get back to the topic at hand: "Heartbreak" should be amended to "heartweight." After all, it is this lead-like force pulling you downward in body and spirit. It is the moody heartweight, in its doldrums, that resists a meaningful glance. Or refused to notice the eye candy of magnificent skies.
A blazing sunset with pinks and oranges can be the ticket to lightness of being. This is the good stuff. Makes you gawk and hang your mouth open like an imbecile. Also lets the heart lose any deadweight-pronto.
So what is my remedy for "heartweight?" I don't know...maybe look up at the sky and check it out. And don't run off to the next galaxy just because someone else is looking up there, too. It doesn't pay to be that sensitive to cliches. Everybody's got one. (And you never know, you might like the person looking.)
This, too, may be a cliche, but as you teach yoga, I invite you to check out this brief video -- ahamoment.com/pg/moments/view/5192 -- about a fellow yoga teacher's "aha moment" that led her to follow her passion and open a studio of her own. I hope you enjoy it, and if you do, perhaps you'll check out the rest of the site, which was created by Mutual of Omaha to highlight inspirational stories, good works, and "aha moments" of all kinds.
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Thank you, Jack! I am this very moment, in the need of some inspiration. The little number with the comment there, made my day! Hopefully I will be able to get to that link.
ReplyDeleteIt is so timely and thoughtful that you are posting this, b/c it has not been too long ago that I committed to my business. I was always backpedaling and making excused and getting afraid that I wouldn't do things right. And then I just fell into it, and now I want to keep growing it. I get afraid sometimes, and feel like I am not going to have the thing it takes, or that It is too late, etc. But my love for what I do keeps pushing me forward. I will look at it! I need an AHA moment right now!!! Ok. I copied it and am going to go look. Thank you for your comment, Jack!! I love inspiration. Can never have too much...
If we live lightly and let the world swirl around us instead of us trying to cause the world, somehow, it seems to me, that the heart enjoys the ride.
ReplyDeleteEnaj, that is a beautiful thought. Actually, I could barely concentrate on what you said b/c the way you said it sounded like a dance in snowflakes on a winter day. I pictured a little girl in red spinning around wildly in a red snowsuit while the snow pours from the sky.
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