Possible futures and present fears
If it is true that we create our worlds, then fearing our future creates fearsome futures –
What if we could simply throw all (human) caution to the wind and do what calls out to us? Take that plane to that place which has been calling to us for so long? Leave the job which has been slowly sapping our life? Turn our back on the relationship which turns our life into a dreary monotonous landscape?
The trouble starts when we assume that things “happen to us”, that we are powerless in the face of our troubles and our unhappiness, that we feel drawn into our dramas and won’t even consider for a moment that the possibility exists that we can simply walk out of them.
We hold onto our old lives because we think that there is nothing more out there – not another partner, not another job, that our security depends on us staying is this life sapping job because jobs are so scarce –
If we remember the times when we felt we were flying, no matter how short they were, when we allow ourselves to accept the possibility that we may truly be creating our lives, then suddenly we are attracted to people who also start believing it – we become magnets for events and folks who confirm our beliefs –
Our present fears can be turned into our present dreams, which will become our exciting and wonderful futures. If we can let go of them.
© Nina Ferrell 2010
