Have you ever lost someone you love?
Did the stab in the chest make you nauseos? Did even lemon lose its ability to make you squirm?
Have you ever had a brush with God?
Did it happen when you were at the top of a beautiful mountain or did it happen when you came face to face with a hijacker?
Have you ever been an addict?
Did your drug of choice soothe you, own you, control you and lift you all at once? Did your alliance seem unbreakable?
Have you ever been lost?
Were you lost in the forest of someone else’s shadow or perhaps lost in the company of familiar people dancing to a beat you could no longer hear?
Have you ever felt satisfied?
Was it as though everything was finally falling into place or was it perhaps just the knowing that you are exactly where you need to be at that moment in time?
Have you ever been seduced?
Did it help you to escape your bad reality only later to return you changed and unsure of the way forward?
Have you ever been betrayed?
Did you stand in the doorway of broken trust and bleed as the shattered pieces of glass cut you as they fell?
Have you ever danced? Really danced?
Did the primal impulse to sway create waves of sexual energy that made you high?
Have you ever eaten through your heart?
Was it your granny’s roast potatoes that transported the seratonin throughout your body or was it a hot curry shared with a hot body on a cold day that stained your arteries with bliss?
Have you ever been touched?
Whether by the 80 year old hand of a stranger, rough with callouses but warm with unspoken stories about abuse, slavery, loved ones that have never returned? Or, was it simply a simple line from a simple song that charged your soul’s batteries and flooded your bones with warmth?
Have you ever blessed someone with prayer?
Did your heart send vibrations across tall walls and rough seas; intercessions seasoned with grand visualisations of success, prosperity, abundance to people who you dreamed great dreams for?
Have you ever wanted a glimpse of your future?
Did you follow that need to seek guidance from soothsayers, Tarot cards, and horoscopes perhaps? Anything that promised the slightest secret fast forward to a life more grand?
I bet you have! And, guess what? So have many spirits before you, many souls yet to come. These shared experiences give us the assurance that we are part of the same journey and that the “answers” we seek already exist.
These experiences should also remind you that YOUR unique set of experiences, YOUR unique choices, YOUR bespoke combo of emotions is what makes YOUR story a story that deserves its own page in the great book of life.
May you learn to appreciate that. There is no story without YOU.
Believe it!
Lee Mayimele - Writer 