Life has been moving at warp speed for me these last couple of weeks. While I'm not always happy when life passes like this - almost leaving me behind - I will be happy to close 2007 and welcome 2008. A lot has happened this year that I have just recently come to terms with...and I'm thrilled to have gone through such an amazing transformation. In looking back, I had imagined I'd be sitting in a cute little French apartment on the Riviera with my beau and wondering how I was going to pay bills. Now I'm facing the end of the year with my mom just next door, my sister an hour away and a very unhealthy relationship behind me.
I was opening a bottle of wine at a table the other day and chatting with the customers. Our restaurant agrees to have a festive Santa stand set up on our beautiful patio that closes during winter and my table was joking around about being "naughty or nice" this year. They asked me which one I had been and I jokingly said, "both!" They then asked what I would ask Santa for in 2008 (quite a personal question, I must say, for having just met them.) Before I could stop myself, I responded, "to leave 2007 in the past." And really? That's all I would ask him for. Too often it takes me way too long before I can move past big events in my life and it just handicaps my future...and my present. I have so much to look forward to in the coming months: a cruise, a life-changing yoga teacher training, a new apartment and freedom...inner freedom especially.
Why do I love yoga so much? Why do I talk about it and incorporate it into my life in an almost obsessive manner? Because it reminds me to live in the present, to be a better person, to seek beauty in all things - good and bad. I am a better person with every pose and every breath I take...I like ME better because I do and live yoga. So 2008? It will be the beginning of a fantastic chapter in life where I leave the past behind and welcome the present with open, lotus arms.
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