Empowered.

Remember all the funny things you used to write in your friend’s little grade school year books?

 

K.I.T.

Keep in touch.

Stay cool.

BFF’s 4 Life.

Have a cool summer.

 

Everyone had that crazy feeling like we may never see each other again. And that if we did, everything could be monumentally different. We had an entire summer to get through without each other. An entire summer.

 

Somehow we went from eternally long summers to years flashing by in a blink of an eye.

 

And now? What’s in a year? 365 days that, although might go by slowly when you’re in each one of them, collectively go unnoticed until you unexpectedly reach a mile marker and look back in disbelief.

 

That seems to have happened to me a few times recently. I just wrote our rent check for April 1, 2016 and realized that it was a year ago today we moved into this wondrous little lake house. It literally feels like it was yesterday. (I have been saying that a lot, too.) I had spent a great deal of time packing up and labeling boxes before I went off to California on vacation. Meanwhile, the fiancé started moving our stuff into the new house, about 10 miles away. (I know, you’re thinking “Wow, how convenient that you went on vacay while the fiancé stayed home to do all the heavy lifting.” No. My OCD was off the charts and I got back in time for the heaviest of lifting, which I watched the fiancé and our friend do. But I paid for it months later when I ate it while carrying a BBQ up the concrete stairs. It all came back around, don’t worry.)

I also realized that it’s been just over a year since I completed the 30 days of Yoga program with Yoga with Adriene. I had been into yoga here and there prior to that, but it was those 30 days that paved the way for my daily practice. I was shocked to realize it was only a year because I feel like I have come so far, learned so much and uncovered so much more that still needs to be learned, within myself and in the physical practice. I would have guessed at least two, if not three, years had gone by, maybe more. I guess that’s the nature of time these days.

 

As I was reflecting on how quickly time goes by and how a simple 30 days can seemingly morph into a year, I decided to embrace it. I joined an online writing group and today marks day 1 of my 30 days of writing challenge. I like to keep things simple and I get easily overwhelmed (and quit) when things get overly complicated and stressful. So, there is only one rule to this challenge; write for 30 minutes a day. The idea is to just show up and see what happens. It’s the mindset I took on that 30 days of yoga and it’s a mindset I’m working on settling into for life.

 

Just show up.

 

See what happens.

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