Where’s Your Umbrella?
Can I share something with you? I’m an over thinker, not your average over thinker who just crosses her t’s and dots her i’s, but the bullet points have to match the color graph, and the power point as well as the animated pictures—I’m extra. I’m being a little facetious, but my thoughts can become for lack of better word “much”. I’m the kind of over thinker, that thinks herself into paralysis, so much so that this blog never would have never happened, I think the shorthanded term for that is “analysis paralysis”. Well, this paralysis has trapped me into situations and circumstances that I knew weren’t good for me and I stayed past expired date because my wheels kept spinning beyond the stop light. It’s a problem that I’m trying to fix.
I was watching “The TikTok”, yes I use “The” before the social media platforms these Gen Z’ers have main hold over; call it my age or just my utter resistance to it, but that’s what it is. And came across influencer Mattie James and she was just describing a little testimony she felt beholden to share. Long story short, it was raining she had an umbrella but contemplated whether she should just run out the car in the rain without it then she was stopped by a thought “Why would you get wet when I’ve equipped you to be dry?”. For some reason I played that Tik Tok over and over like it was the Renaissance album. (Hey, BeeHive!) Instead of just reaching in the back of the car and reaching for the nearby umbrella Mattie was about to take the “easy” way and get wet while doing it. This led her to share a message, “just because it’s raining doesn’t you have to get wet especially when you’ve been equipped to be dry”.
Unsure if this is right on time or just timely but I recently turned down an offer, that originally seemed like a good opportunity but when the curtain was pulled it was full of crab grass and trash everywhere with mold on top. I realized I wasn’t the main choice, I was who they were left with. The people, the opportunity and the vibrations weren’t in sync for what I wanted for myself, but the initial thought was I will just do it until something else better comes along. For brief second (and I do mean BRIEF, close to nano second), I was willing to get wet plus willing to compromise my time, for lack and not for abundance. Almost forgetting my main character energy, I would have gotten lost in the seemingly easy path and become drenched instead working toward my purpose. I’m saying all this to say don’t let anyone write your story, you’re the headliner of your own show. And despite what plans other people have for you there is nothing better than crossing them out and turning the page to the next chapter. Because you aren’t here to pick at the crumbs you’re here to have the main course plus the desert topped with a French 75.
XOXO,
D
