The Direction of Intention

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Sarah told me over breakfast that she’s spent the past few years making some changes in her life. One day she woke up and asked herself, “Is this the person I want to be? Is this the way I want to live my life?” Her answer was no.

The truth is I’d tried to get out of having breakfast with her. I hadn’t seen her for a few years and I didn’t much like her. The young woman I knew needed drama. She needed attention. She lived behind a big wall, screaming for attention and hiding when she received it. In the past, I always felt tired after spending time with her. She thrived in her brokenness.

In the woman sitting across the table this morning I saw none of that. I saw someone who’d given up needing the opinions of others to define her self. I chatted with a woman who was as interested in the lives of others as she was in her own path. I experienced the generosity of spirit that was there all along, the availability that comes when someone at long last puts down their idea of who they should be and allows who they are to be seen.

I do not underestimate the courage and tenacity it took for Sarah to allow herself to be seen. I left breakfast feeling the simple joy in having met her at last. I like the person she is so much more than the person she pretended to be for so long.

Profound life change begins when you are ready to ask the simple questions.

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