Views From the Hallway

So many times in my life I have thought, ‘this is it! I have arrived!’, only to be pushed into another direction.  Often it has been one I didn’t desire and certainly wasn’t looking for.  Sometimes I felt like I was stuck in a hallway, waiting for doors to open.  I thought that some doors stayed closed because I wasn’t meant for what was behind them. One day, after so many visits to the hallway, I landed in an exciting and unexpected place in my life. I looked back and realized the ‘no’s’ I had been getting were ‘not yet’s’.  I had so much I needed to do, experience and learn before some doors were ready to open.  That’s why I had been stuck in the hallway so many times.  

One of my favorite teachers, Wayne Dyer, wrote a book called I Can See Clearly Now.  It’s a book about the synchronicities in his life, the lessons he learned, and most of all that everything in his life happened on purpose—even if he himself didn’t believe it at the time. I read that book during a particularly challenging period but it gave me a lot to think about.  It also gave me hope and patience.  

Now, when something doesn’t go my way, I try to remember there is a lot that can happen in the hallway!  I am being prepared for something more or perhaps the thing I am seeking has just not arrived yet.  And, if anything, as a close friend once told me–if I find myself stuck in the hallway, make sure I at least have some nice art to look at or some windows with a good view.