It Happened On The Seafront

It all started because I was playing hooky. I work for myself so any time I'm not at my desk, prospecting for clients, with clients or otherwise "available", I'm playing hooky. But this was no ordinary hooky. As I found out, this was very important hooky.

There I was staring out to sea, wondering at the enormity of life.... I had just attended my Profit Club breakfast meeting, it was still only 10.15am & I had the entire day to reflect on what we're all to make of The Law of Attraction......

I was not alone! Well I mean, can't a girl get some peace? On a seafront as big as, as, well it's a big one ok. Plenty of room to avoid people. Plenty of big wide open space to mind your own business......
"Morning young Miss!" came the shout out.... my way. My way? What was I doing? Hold on a minute, I was walking towards him!
"Morning to you!" came my jovial reply. Now, I realise I referred to myself earlier as a girl. Fact is I know some girls, & they're a lot younger than me so ok I'm a sucker for a compliment & he had me, he thought I was a 'young miss'. Right in the palm of his hand I was like a swooning..... thing that swoons. Well he was old & you know, they fought the war, can't be rude to an old person.

Herein lies today's first lesson. Okay, yesterday's but I got home late & didn't have time to do this. So, the lesson. Yes what was it? Yes, ok, this man. He'd seen me.

-If I am invisible, how did he see me standing there? And more, of all the people passing by, why did he talk to me?

Because I was invisible once! And now, I'm just not anymore.

A story for you: once upon a time a very long time ago (hey, don't push it, I've fessed up to the age thing now leave it alone) there was a young (heyho) girl who liked to watch people. She watched people because, one day, she hoped to become just like them, only she didn't know how. Thing is, as a 'not-quite-a-real-person-yet' kind of a person, this girl didn't realise that she could be seen. Other people, the real ones, they could be seen. She knew this because she watched them, every day. There they all were, living their lives, doing their thing, supposedly (definitley she thought) successfully.

When this girl grew up, she realised she had spent all of her time trying to learn how to be somebody else. And now, because of all that wasted energy, the girl became very sick. And the girl stayed sick........ for a very long long time.

Throughout her efforts to become well, she still felt invisible as she was very clearly most definitely still not a real person. How can you be when you're living off the state, totally dependant on the people around you for almost everything, seemingly giving nothing back & feeling like a burden? How? Huh? Well you know I really don't know the answer to that one. How does anyone feel like a real person? A grown up. What's a grown up?

So this man had my attention. Why not, I had clearly grabbed his. And this is something I know I do on a frequent basis, only conveniently remembering to be invisible on days like well yesterday, but see I'd been working with The Law & The Law clearly states that positive vibes will attract like in return. There would have been nothing I could do to stop it unless I decided to sink into a bucket of negative.... stuff.... that lives in buckets. You get my drift. I was 'aligned' you see. That's what it's called when you're allowing the good stuff you want to come your way to make that transition from thought waves into matter. You'll have to read the book. Well there's loads of books. Get one that suits you, it's called The Law of Attraction.

The girl woke up one day & the world was different. She had one goal in mind & that was to be well again. But first, she had to know what was wrong. Her disease (dis-ease) was misunderstood, no one really knew what it was & no one knew what to do about having it. Certainly there was no one to tell her how to recover, that just didn't seem to happen. While she was awake, the girl got to thinking........ 'see all that time I spent watching...... I don't know why, but it means something. I'm going to find out what it means because that's what I was doing right before I became so sick.'

The "Aha" of that moment really wore her out & she quickly fell back to sleep. It was an enormous task. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, was to use all that stored information for her recovery. But it needed sifting & sorting. It needed organisation. It needed to make sense. If she was right then she could be well in oh say, a couple more years? But then what.....?

I should have at least asked for his name. He was in fact 82, would have indeed seen the tail end of the War if not been involved in some way...... most men of that age were. Why does the War still make me feel like crying...... So he told me he'd seen me take a good look out to sea but he didn't think I'd be going in for a dip any time soon. Er, correct. It was mild-ish, it's autumn after all so the heat of the summer sun has all but DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY!!! Sorry. Had a late holiday overseas & came back to falling leaves, cold snaps & just generally lots of other snaps as tempers fray & the days get shorter.... & shorter..... Anyhoo, no I wasn't going in. Cheeky monkey was provoking me! Cheeky monkey was wanting to brag about the fact that....... "Been in not less than three times this last week!"

Now see, why is it when confronted with somewhat of a bold act from someone old enough to be my Grandad (loved my Grandad) I'm reduced to the interractive skills of a chipmunk. Yes I squeaked. Cheeks puffed, squeak emitted, what next? I have no idea how to talk to old people without sounding exceptionally maternal, nurturing & oh deary deary me, PATRONISING. Yikes. Someone get me out of here before I embarass myself.

The girl did eventually recover her health. Hoorah! More than that she uncovered a sense of self so profound that she had to recreate her relationships with all of these people (whether thay had ever known she existed or not) so that she could use the information in the right way. Not trying to learn how to be just like them, but learning how to show them how to be more of themselves. And as for her health, what d'you know! Esteem Solutions was born. Yippee!!!!

So the lesson then. Yes the lesson. Where was I? Yes, should've bought him a cup of tea. Law of Attraction rule no. 5,673 (possibly number 1 actually but I'm not one of the experts just yet so go with the humour on this one) "Follow your Bliss" . Want to know the full quotation? Want to know who first said that? Your wish is my command: "Follow your bliss & the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.", Joseph Campbell 1904-1987.

It would have been an honour to spend some time with this man, not playing hooky. Learning about life, learning how to be. He left me standing there gawping, he said I looked beautiful (reason for the gawp, I squeaked a thank-you- actually that's harsh, I was marginally more articulate than a chipmunk by this stage. For the sake of argument I'll promote myself to a raccoon) I turned to walk on the sand. But goodness me I'm stupid. He walked past me half an hour later, raised his hand up behind me in salute & hailed something or other that the wind took away & still I stood there. What was I supposed to do, run after him & ask if he could spare the time?

So the lesson. You tell me.