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I remember sitting in a bar once and watching a woman dancing. She was so full of joy and life that I found it hard to take my eyes off her. She was mesmerising.
But I didn't tell her.
I remember being in the supermarket one day and seeing a woman who had matched her eye make up to the colours in her headscarf. Her eyes shone when she smiled and she looked beautiful.
But I didn't tell her.
I remember watching a fellow mum on the school run years ago. She had a toddler who kept stumbling, stopping to pick things up and pausing to point things out. The mum was so encouraging, patient and calm with her toddler, despite being in a rush herself. I remember thinking what a wonderful parent she was.
But I didn't tell her.
And how often have you probably been that person? Not the one noticing and saying nothing - but the one being noticed.
The one exuding calm, beauty and joy to such an extent that people will remember you years later as the person in the bar or the woman in the supermarket or the mum on the school run.
The one who was mesmerising. Beautiful. Wonderful.
And yet you'll never know because they never told you.
But they noticed you. I promise.
*****
Becky Hemsley 2022
❤️ Camino Thoughts ❤️
Today I remembered something that I had read by best selling author Katherine May. It struck a chord with me and I thought it might speak to some of you also. - DW -
"When I walk, I fall through three layers of experience. The first is all about the surface of my skin, the immediate feedback of my senses. It is often twitchy and uncomfortable: my boots are too tight; there’s a twig in my sock. My backpack won’t sit square on my shoulders. My walking is stop-start in that phase, curtailed by an endless series of adjustments. I am never sure if I really want to go the distance.
But if I walk on through that, those sensations eventually fade and they’re replaced by bubbling thought, a burgeoning of ideas and insights, a sense of joyous chatter in the mind. This is the point in a walk when the interior of my mind feels luxuriant, a place so pleasurable to inhabit that I never want my legs to stop. It’s a creative space, a place where problems are solved in unfathomable ways, the answers arriving like truths known all along.
If I carry on walking, eventually that fades, too. Perhaps it is low blood sugar, or perhaps the popcorn brain burns itself out eventually, but at some point I reach a very different state of mind, a place beyond words in which I feel quiet and empty. This is my favourite phase of all, an open space in which I am nothing for a while, just an existence with moving parts and a map in my hand, whose feet know the route and do not need my interference. Nothing happens here, or so it seems. But in its aftermath, I find my most profound insights, whole shifts in the meanings and understandings that underpin who I am. In this state, I am an open door."
~ Katherine May ~
(Artwork by Jesus Regueira Amigo)
"When you are gone I go back to the moments of us, the moments were love meets life, when our souls meet and speak, and so tenderly hug and kiss. I go back to relive the deep feelings they unleash within me, when you are here and you become everything in that space of time, when the world falls away and there is only us, baring our souls, sharing our feelings, our music, our thoughts. The magic that envelops us, I feel it even now, just by thinking of you, by remembering your words, your laugh. How to explain to you what happiness it is to relive memories of you and what hope and joy is to a heart who longs, who waits, but that knows that rain will come again?"
loving is easy
being loved
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road to travel...
You’ve got to get out of your comfort zone. Even though you may be comfortable where you are right now, you don’t belong there if your goals are bigger than your comfort zone.
John Assaraf
Sometimes you just have to stay silent because no words can explain what’s going on in your heart and mind.
Unknown
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
Coco Chanel
Sometimes happiness comes in little pockets of unexpected surprises.
Don’t settle for anything less than your heart truly desires.