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Have you read Oprah’s book “What I Know For Sure”? I kept this book in my bag at all times when I lived in new york. It was the book I read on the subway. I started reading it again and paragraphs that I underlined in 2014 read completely differently to me now 10 years later. “What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can’t avoid the daily tremors. They come with being alive. But I believe these experiences are gifts that force us to step to the right or left in search of a new centre of gravity. Don’t fight them. Let them help you adjust your footing. Balance lives in the present. When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now. You’ll handle whatever shake-up the next moment brings when you get to it. In this moment, you’re finding a way to step into higher ground.” I’m learning how to become more aware of this. I forget to bring myself to present moment often when I’m moving through something difficult, or working through something I have never experienced before. Life has a funny way to testing you - for me personally the tests tend to come all at once. “Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other - to be in a position to make the climb up life’s mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.”
Every experience is a valuable teacher, it also brings an added level of depth to us as humans. I feel different than I was 3, 4, 6 months ago. I guess this is what Oprah meant when she said “new centre of gravity”, it’s impossible to ever be the same when we step to higher ground. As the summer ends, the last 6 months feels like it’s fading away too - with all of its lessons and experiences that came with it. It really is a blessing to be able to experience life’s mountain. To the next mountain.
