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About unexpected change, intentional choices, and the benefit of disruption.
A story about my unexpected cross-country move and some strong feelings about our proclivity to NOT want disruption (and my disagreement with such).
I didn’t expect to move from Washington to North Carolina 4 weeks ago. The prospect didn’t even enter my conscious consideration until early December, when I flew to my sister’s as birthday present to myself. Yes, months earlier she’d mentioned that I should inhabit her 3rd floor, but I didn’t take her seriously. Who means that? Who offers that? Who really wants someone else living in their home? But once I got there, sitting in her living room, drinking coffee, and actually entertaining the possibility, it became shockingly clear to me that she wanted this. I could actually choose to say “yes” to a change that was bursting into my life — unexpected, surprising, shocking even.
How often we do we miss opportunity for change and transition? We either a) assume it’s not really ours to pursue or embrace; not really available; or b) immediately disregard it, given what it would require, cost (on multiple levels), and ultimately mean.
Though I have made this leap, believe me, there have been plenty of times in which I’ve not…
