So, I've been working with a Health Coach over the last several months. She's been helping me with managing stress and teaching me about things like intermittent fasting and other cool superhero kinds of things to help me battle my A1C levels. Yes, even tough guys like me need a little help from their friends and Health Coaches every-once-in-a while.
During one of our sessions she told me, 'What you seek is seeking you...' - now I don't mind telling you that I asked her to repeat that phrase several times because I was feeling like she had just opened a new portal into my Kirbyoblongata. I later learned that she borrowed the quote from a 13th century Persian Poet named Rumi not that it has anything to do with where I am going.
Anyway, so after laying that 13th century truth on me, she left it's interpretation and how I could incorporate it's meaning into my journey of becoming a better me, entirely up to me. Mind blown, I retreated to the confines of the bat cave to begin my introspective interrogation of it's meaning.
I'll be honest, I have no idea what Rumi was thinking when he wrote those words seven centuries ago but what I think my coach was trying to tell me was that the things that we desire are not that difficult to achieve if we are willing to change ourselves. Those things that we desire are seeking us in the same way that we are seeking them, maybe even more. Otherwise, we wouldn't have them in our imagination. Just wait there's more... To some degree, I think that, as human people, we can only see what is a part of us. In my case, a healthier me has been with me all along - I just needed to open my mind and let my imagination be free to see me for who I really am.
I'm not sure if any of this is like when people say that they found Jesus. I mean, it's not like Jesus was hiding or anything. He's just been standing on the other side of the door knocking.
Be well.
Bill
