Every day my best friend and I basically have one long therapy session via GChat. We remind each other of our strengths, how to handle our weaknesses. We support each other while stressed, overwhelmed, scared or all of the above. We laugh with each other at the craziness of the world, but most often the craziness of ourselves, our minds and our hearts.
Poor thing must decipher the analogies I create from the influence of whatever business client I am working with at the time. For example -- today we discussed having a solid foundation. Because I was emailing back and forth with a client who is a lumber liquidator, I talked about how getting past an painful ex is like pouring a solid concrete foundation and that slowly, but surely, the other construction materials will arrive, such as the wood, the nails, the dry wall. After this (clearly brilliant) analogy was discussed, she sent me the image below.
But is it really this cut and dry? Is it always the heart that produces the chaotic feelings and the brain trying to put those feelings into order? Or is it the other way around? I think it's both -- all the time! Sometimes our hearts can be beyond chaotic, pulling us in multiple directions while the brain attempts to figure out which direction is the best. And at other times, the heart knows exactly what it wants and yet we let our brains talk us into multiple different directions.
It all brings me back a piece of advice I received years ago from the mother of one of my longest friends. Mrs. Roper said, in passing, "you can only make the next right decision." Knowing now what she went through in an unhappy marriage while raising two children, I respect those words all the more. I've thought about them so often and they are SO TRUE! You do not know what the future holds and you cannot change any of the past; you can only make the next right decision.
My prayer is that I lead a long life of one right decision after another!
