Leap of Faith!

I had a few key defining moments that changed the course of my life completely! It always involved massive leaps of faith.

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The first high impact one was when I was about eight years old. This I actually didn’t have a say in. My estranged mother who had lived away abroad through most of my childhood suddenly plucked me out of my life in India from family and friends to live with her in the Middle East. It was initially proposed as a summer vacation where I would have the opportunity to visit the country where she resided. She was a beautiful enigma I’d always fantasized living and sharing my life with so I was thrilled at the prospect initially but the vacation didn’t go quite as planned. Soon it became evident that I wasn’t going to be sent back home. Being separated unexpectedly and without proper goodbyes from everything and everyone I had ever known to live with new folks (albeit my biological mother and her husband in a foreign country) was terrifying to say the least.

The second dramatic one came when I was seventeen. This time I had a say in my fate! There were many high risk moving factors to contemplate over as my mother disclosed her intent and covert mission to help transport me away from my oppressive circumstances in the Middle East to the far off mystical world of the U.S.-of-A. I was given an opportunity to go off to university in New York City. It was complicated however. The stakes were incredibly high, the prospects were definitely dangerous and far more importantly I was at a crossroad- where I needed to choose to leave behind everything and everyone I knew to start over in a new country half way across the world all by myself once again. Not easy but I jumped in determined to take my chances for better or for worse!

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Ah! Choices! There were a few other big ones in my years to follow. At the age of twenty two with my heart, soul and logic all in complete and utter turmoil I struggled over another massive decision…this time it involved signing a marriage contract..... not under traditional circumstances.... and one that was to be kept secret from my friends and family. A secret that was eventually disclosed....still no simple step. Then another fourteen years later I made the even bigger call to escape out of that contract. I walked away strangely enough in a brand new place I’d never lived in before, all alone....in shock but clutching on gratefully to a new job offer in hand. I had no pieces to pick up….just a new life to begin from scratch again! That last fight was definitely the toughest in many ways but also the most rewarding.

In fact each of those grand shifts in my path presented their own challenges and rewards over the years and it is only now that I am finally able to understand and accept that there is no justification for regrets left inside me. It's all good!

So leaps of faith I’ve taken a few! Each one terrifying! Each one luckily landing me on solid ground one way or another….concluding that risks have eventually worked out in my favor regardless or so I believe!

With all this practice it baffles me however that I can still find myself clinging on to things or people that no longer serve me. Why? It always comes down to fear! In fact fear is the strongest obstacle to overcome in this lifetime it seems and the one hook that consistently keeps us from venturing off in search of our own true horizons….where our realities and our dreams can harmoniously collide into some deeper and more meaningful understanding of our existence I guess….umm…do you know what I mean? Lol! I do hope so! I am left pondering over this often!

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Fear is a survival instinct and should be honored but it’s not like we live in jungles where wild animals pick us up for dinner randomly….as in our habitats and lifestyles have evolved but our basic survival instincts have those evolved with us too I am left wondering.…!?….How can you know for sure when exactly your survival instincts are working for you versus against you!?  

So here is the question- When you arrive at crossroads in life where a drastic decision is required of you….how do you decide if it’s time to take a leap of faith or not….knowing that the risks are too great but the rewards potentially greater? At the very core of our human experience this ability alone determines the true nature of our path…the ability to know when to jump, when to run, when to hold your ground, when just to be and when to be something so much more…. than you have ever already defined within yourself for yourself- Know what I mean? I have faith that the odds are always working in our favor. Risks can often bring great rewards- Right!? So perhaps it’s good to take a big leap of faith whenever it presents itself on our path- No?

Wishing everyone amazing experiences whether taking a leap of faith or not-Now and always!

Namaste!

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