Just a Thought: You are the Forest
So, I’m sitting here, at my writing desk, in my bathing suit and cover up…just about to leave for a covid test and then a beach day…in THAT ORDER.
Oh summer, 2021.
You gotta test to work, people, and I have GRATEFULLY had about 100 covid tests (or more) in the last eleven months.
GRATEFULLY.
GET VACCINATED!!
That is my PSA for vaccination for the day.
Please don’t write me if you disagree…I mean, you can if you want…but, to be honest, I will not read it. Just keeping it real and true.
ANYHOW!!
I was meditating this morning…I know, that statement is simply rife with new age-ieness, but meditation has changed my life and I stand by it (well, actually, I sit beside it cross legged with eyes closed…but I digress) and I while I was meditating, I was reminded of a conversation I had with…wait for it…my therapist.
I know…she has ALSO changed my life…and I stand by her care, as well…life, right?
You never know where your search for happiness and clarity will lead you…and I am happy with the journey.
ANYHOW, ANYHOW!!
As I sat, breathing, this memory rolled through my head from April 2017…2017? No…2018…wow, time is weird, right now…wait for the new age-ieness in THIS following shit here, that I also stand by…my therapist and I had this exchange:
Me: I feel like…I feel like I was a bird…and he was a tree…he was rooted and I was, I was just flying around and around his branches, never able to sit still, always searching, always watching, always nervous, always a bit scared…I was flittering and flapping… and he was grounded and I was…I was not.
Therapist: Oh Sharron…this is where you have to pull back your perspective…think wider and higher…you are not a bird…or a tree…you are the fucking forest.
I think my heart stopped.
We are not one thing…one moment…one relationship…one choice…one statement…one decision…one hope…one dream…one wish…one day…one month…or even one year…we are everything.
Each and every one of us.
The longer we ruminate on one thing…one moment…one relationship…one statement…one decision…one hope…one dream…one wish…one day…one month…one year…one bird or one tree…the longer we stay stuck inside the forest…and aren’t actually acknowledging and recognizing that, as well as not living like, we ARE THE FOREST.
WE ARE THE FUCKING FOREST.
AND YOU LITERALLY CANNOT SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES. SO STEP BACK, HUMANS.
AND THAT is what I have to say today.
All my forest thoughts to you , today!
July 26th, 2021 – S.M.
Toronto, ON.
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Hello,
I love this so much – yes to being the forest, even bigger, yes to being the earth, all the magick therein and out. Your words delight me, I discovered you through Frankie Drake (please can we bring this back on another channel!).
Thank you for you, delighted to ‘meet’ you,
Richest Blessings, always and in all ways,
Gail xoxo