Every Time a Baby Walks, the Universe Cheers
Was talking to a friend the other day, and a great metaphor popped into my head. It was a metaphor appropriate to what she was experiencing, but also to what we’re doing here at Where’s Your Heart?.
Where’s Your Heart? is about the change occurring in our culture. About our priorities, our relationships, and importantly how we relate to the world around us. You might say, it’s more of a feminine energy. You might be right. It’s actually more about the shared experience of life and the energy it manifests. Once you connect to this energy, you realize it conspires for us. It supports us, and it’s right there where we need it to be. All we need to do is trust it.
I say “all we need to do” like it’s easy or something! Bottom line is, the game’s rigged… in our favor. As I was talking with this friend, a great analogy popped into my head. I want to share it.
Have you ever watched a new baby learn to walk? Your first reaction is to cheer them on. No one ever wants the baby to fall. Or worse, to never be able to walk. I suspect, you can’t even imagine a person who might think jeer a baby who takes their first step, right?
We know we can’t just walk for the baby. And, there’s not a lot we can do to ease the pain that comes with the process of learning to walk; the constant falling, mentally experiencing the 100% failure rate RIGHT UP UNTIL THEY LEARN TO WALK.
Even as I write this, I’m a bit overwhelmed with how perfect this analogy is to any of us who are trying to get more out of life than a bigger paycheck. I find myself falling time and again, and to the point of not wanting to even face the next item on my todo list with Where’s Your Heart?. But, I know, I trust that in spite of my best efforts to fall, the universe is cheering me on. Things lead to things. And, right now, things are conspiring to help us along the way as definitively as any adult would do anything to be there when a baby takes their first steps.
Last bit of sagely advice before I head back up my mountain for the day.
When you’re having a hard one, think about that baby when they fall. Look up, look around. Find a friend, and they’ll be sure to cheer you on. And, like a parent for their child, they’ll totally get when you’ve had enough falling for the day and just want to eat and sleep until trying again tomorrow.
