When Fairy Godmother’s Blog! November 19, 2007
What do you get when a Fairy Godmother blogs? Recipes for magic dust? A way to keep your wand shiny?
Well, this Fairy Godmother is going to tell you practical pointers for being a Fairy Godmother in the world today. It isn’t always easy. Often times people laugh at the wings you have fluttering behind you. They most assuredly question whether you are sane or not. And always they think, well that’s all well and good for her but I live in the real world.
Several years ago I found myself faced with many cataclysmic events occurring in my life. Loss in the form of death, desertion, callusness, and deception left me in a world that I didn’t create. The landscape of my world was where everyone else decided who I should be, what I should wear, what I should eat, and how I should act. I was a full grown marrionette with lots of strings attached to me. When my mom died of cancer when she was 54, I said, “Enough is enough.” My mom was young and I knew that if I continued along the way I had been for the past few years, I would end up in the same position she had. It was time for change.
It’s funny how when you just let that idea form in your brain The Universe hears the bell go off and they throw all the plans they had formulated for you into action. Before you know it you are facing the biggest fears of your life, becoming a strong and amazingly agile adapter, and jumping off the treadmill of life for lands unseen, unknown, and uncharted. It’s a dazzeling display of truth and uncertainty rolled into one. And what a ride it becomes.
I remember the day that I started on my journey. It was after losing my mother to cancer that I decided that mediocre marriage was not okay for me. While being alone was the biggest fear I could ever conceive of it turned out that being alone was exactly what I needed. Being alone taught me that I was bigger, faster, and braver than I ever had imagined. And while I stumbled into a temper tantrum or two along the way, as I grew courageous I saw endless possibilites.
Possiblities, we so often discount this word as something we will never attain. “It’s possible”, we say but we don’t really believe it. Possiblities rest on the shelves of our mind collecting dust. They are sitting right next to “if onlys” and “what ifs” so they are in good company, however, they end up haunting us instead of behaving themselves and fading into the deepest recesses of our mind. For me I took this zag in my life’s path as the perfect time to take those “possibilities” off my shelf, dust them clean, and see where they could take me.
It’s been a ride through joy, pain, love, honesty, truth, deception, beginnings, dirt, bliss, vodka, and laughter. But what a ride it has been. And lucky for me, the ride is just beginning. It is just picking up steam! Boy, I get excited when I realize that those “possibilities” really knew what they were talking about. They really had a handle on what this life is all about. And even better, if we let them, those possilities will step right up, grab your hand, and take you along with them for the most amazing ride that is your life.
So that is what a Fairy Godmother blogs about tonight….how it started. It’s a beginning and lucky for us every day is a new one of those. Every day is filled with possibilites both big and small. And as a Fairy Godmother it is my responsibility to make sure that not one them is ignored. That is something a magic wand comes in handy for.
