Have your cake, and eat it too.

soulfulsojourner
Jan 19, 2022
2 min read

Hola amiga!

So, when I first started writing this blog, I originally thought I wanted to write a long post about a much needed life update, and so I began to reflect on these past two years and in doing so I then I stumbled across something in my journal that a friend once shared with me and I now want to share with you:

"we try to control things because of what we think will happen if we don't; in other words, control is rooted in fear. So, control is also a result of being attached to a specific outcome, an outcome we are sure is best for us, as if we always know what's best. When we trust that we're okay no matter what circumstances come our way, we don't need to micro-manage the universe. We let go, and we open ourselves to all sorts of wonderful possibilities that aren't there when we're attached to one "right" path."

I originally wrote that down in my journal in 2020 and here I am two years later reflecting on how much this still resonates with me. And if anything, even more so today than it did two years ago.

It's wild to think about where I was exactly two years ago today. Living in south Florida, just landed in Miami on a flight back from New York City after celebrating my birthday, newly single, soon to begin to embark on a brand new chapter in my life; and I had no idea where it was about to take me.

Fast forward two years and if there's if there's anything that I've learned in the past year (or two), it's exactly that: to let go. Let go of the idea that I was meant for one "right" path. Let go of things that no longer serve me, and to let go of what I thought was meant for me.

Because the truth is, I have no idea what is meant for me. And I have no idea what the one "right" path is. What I do know is that I'm meant to trust the process. And that I'm meant to find my purpose, and to show up and be unapologetically me every single day.

And so, cheers to another year having our cake and eating it too. I'm so glad that you're here to share it with me<3

p.s. if you needed a sign to have a photoshoot of yourself just so that in twenty years you can look back and be glad to say that you did -- this is it ;)