Tag: moving forward

I wanted to write this post about intentions but I got stuck, lost the thread, and got bored.

So instead, I will write something similar but different.

I found a book called Design your Life that I had bought a long time ago. In it, there is an exercise where you make a metaphor for your life currently and a metaphor for how you would want it to be in the future. I had written that I thought my life currently was an elevator but I was in the wrong building. And my life of the future would be like the ocean, deep and thoughtful; full of wonder and mystery. I was surprised at how accurate it is; how I knew so long ago what I wanted.

What is funny about that is that I found the ocean, every day, every morning, in my writing, in my painting, in my son.

But I am still in that elevator in the wrong building.

Not quite how I thought that would be but it never is. Time and time, again, I have wanted things and, many times, they’ve happened but never in the way I imagined.

So the title of this post, moving forward. I want to get off the elevator and get out of the building. So I think I’m going to start visiting the ocean more often.