Life is funny sometimes isn’t it?
You can feel so ‘off path’ one minute & then so aligned & connected in the next. This is happening to me a lot lately. I feel I am quantum jumping at a rapid pace. Anyone on an awakening journey knows this feeling I’m sure. You can feel ‘stuck’ for a while & then next thing something clicks & the clarity that comes is magical.
I was in León, Spain recently for my Erasmus reunion. Twenty years have passed since a group of about 90 students from all around the world descended there. Not many of us could meet up for the 20 year reunion, and not all of us are still in contact, but the occasion had to be marked. The reunion gang was made up of people from Italy, Ireland (me), UK, Spain & México.
The trip was more important for me than I realised it would be. It solidified a lot of things.
Mainly the fact that there is no such thing as coincidence. Going back this time felt like a big circle has completed (ready to start again…haha). Seeing some of the gang again (some of whom I hadn’t seen since the 10 year reunion) brought up many feelings for me, especially when I went to the university.
Mixed emotions of times passed. It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed. In many ways I feel better than ever. It’s that feeling of looking back at my younger self & what I would say to her.
Twenty years ago, I arrived in León on my own. I was put in contact with another girl from my university but I didn’t know her. I knew nobody. I also hadn’t a word of Spanish. I had learnt the alphabet, a few verbs & some songs!! I was in for a shock…haha.
A gang of us did a three week intensive Spanish course before our lectures started and then we were off. I’ll never forget going to classes. I literally could not understand a word the lecturers were saying, but you know somehow I managed. Full immersion, ‘give it my all’ attitude. I didn’t think or expect anything after the few months there. I also didn’t think deciding to study Spanish in the first place was a particularly enlightened or strategic idea. I just thought it would be fun to spend a year of college in Spain!
Turns out, it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I also see now that it wasn’t ‘random‘. It was all divinely orchestrated & part of my bigger plan. When I asked my mother what language they spoke in Tenerife, on our first family holiday abroad aged 10 or 11, and she told me ‘Spanish’, I declared, ‘I’m going to learn Spanish’ (because I was very happy to spend 2 weeks in my swimming togs & not feel cold). I never thought of that moment again until I was trying to decide what I would study in college. I was clueless as to what I wanted to do. And this moment ‘dropped’ into my head, so I went with it.
Now I know without a shadow of a doubt that this was a ‘divine nudge’, a whisper from my Higher Self, my intuition guiding me. This is how it happens. It comes in like a ‘random’ thought out of nowhere and it often doesn’t make sense but it is definitely part of a bigger picture that we can’t see in the moment (and often don’t see or know for years).
How my life path has unfolded, all the travels I’ve done, the amazing people I’ve met, the experiences I’ve had, the person I’ve become, it’s all been divinely guided all along. Even the times when I felt lost, like I didn’t know what I was doing, like somehow I was ‘wrong’ for following these seemingly ‘random’ nudges that I couldn’t explain or make sense of, now I can see the ‘invisible thread’ that connected it all. The circle complete like I mentioned before.
I could never have imagined the impact that ‘random’ moment would have had, the path it would have brought me on. It feels like the film ‘Sliding Doors’ and I’m so grateful to have followed the nudges. I no longer doubt them. I have full faith in them because I have too much evidence of a ‘Higher Force’ at play. Not just this experience but many, many others in all areas of my life. It’s almost a daily experience now of things working out, falling into place – what I call ‘divine synchronicity‘ or ‘micro-miracles‘.
But that doesn’t mean it’s easy. It requires courage, trust & faith to follow your intuition, but like this trip has confirmed, it’s always worth it.
So my suggestion is to follow what calls you. Do what feels scary. Push yourself outside your comfort zone, and live full out!! Just go for it…
You’ve got one life…what do you want to do with it?
