Friday, November 4, 2011

Go Ahead and Just Live... Even for a Little

Last Saturday I decided to do something I have not done in years, go out ALONE!
*Insert deep sigh here*
I'm kidding. It was GREAT!


I had carefully thought about this day coming up and had even invited a close friend of mine to join me, but that didn't work out.  Needless to say the day before I was rather anxious and almost wussed out on going by myself, but who really wants to go down punking out? I don't.  So when Saturday morning rolled around, I had spent the morning indulging in a good daily dose of my favourite game SIMS, taking a nap and then had dinner. For my soul preparation I had a long hot shower and then I got all dolled up for ME to some happy music. I was gorgeous.

I had spent the evening attending a dance presentation by the Dance Theatre Xaymaca- GREAT SHOW. A friend of mine, participated in a few of the dances (Kels, You are still a beautiful dancer!).  I thought it was a very epic ending to a rather difficult week.  I was able to reinforce some self-love lessons and I was able to get out and laugh and smile and be inspired by the human body and human bodies moving to soulful music.

I got enough juice to say "Laura, You are going to get through this."  Before the show Kels called to say she had another friend who was also attending solo and if it was OK if she sat with me, I said sure, it was fine. Funnily she shared that a mutual friend of ours referred her to my blog and that she was actually trying to practice on one such post about Perfect Love.
While she is still in her relationship she is trying to figure out how to spend some time with herself alone.  I wish you all the best Paige, just remember every habit starts with a thought, and I hope everything works out.

All in all it was a beautiful evening. I am really happy and proud of myself that I went because the truth is that Life starts right now. Right in this moment. Whether I like it or not, whether I have money or not, or a man or not. It is happening and there isn't anything I can do to stop it and unfortunately I can't walk into the Life Store and request a refund on all the times I didn't LIVE.  So if you are like me- Trying to find contentment in what you have right now and learning to love yourself in spite of. Go Ahead and Just Live... even for a little :)

Have you ever gone out by yourself? What was the experience like for you?
Originally published in 2011