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If we live long enough there will be That Moment. It will be a phone call, a diagnosis, a sit-down discussion with a family member, a conversation you overhear. A bit of information will come into Your Life and you are forever changed. Your Life veers off on a completely different tangent.
All expectations of what the future looked like are completely dashed to bits.
You are left standing in the void.
In her book, “Welcoming The Unwelcome” — Pema Chodron addresses this state of being brilliantly. We all assume we stand in the void alone. But this experience is completely human and a universal one.
We will all face this at some point in our existence.
This Reality Check.
This place where we look out into the world and understand nothing we thought was important — nothing society taught us should matter — nothing we clung to for stability — none of those things are Truth.
The defining characteristic of Life-Altering events is the clarity they bring. Standing in the void which follows them — we know on a soul level what pieces of Life are the important bits.
It is not the car we drive or the house we live in. It’s not the number of shoes in our closet or even the state of our romantic lives.
