Call Me Crazy!
Who knew I would put Johannesburg behind me so quickly. Now it almost seems like another lifetime. Short of a very incompetent lawyer, an estate agent (who should have retired 20 years ago) not bothering to do her job, and a house that is still not transferred (but let’s not go there); I am now almost fully entrenched in a new town!
The notoriously bad winter weather has not been too bad so far. Lovely blue skies shining through the sliding door today and beckon for me to go enjoy the day. I shall be doing so shortly but first, some thoughts on life.
I have not slept so well and so completely in a very long time. There is something magical about peace and quiet, together with a lot less pollution in the air. It lulls a person to relax.
So just perhaps this is exactly what I needed. This and, of course, to win the lottery! Picture perfect I would say. Although I have not gotten to the beach very often it is still such a pleasant reminder to listen to the sounds of the surf barely 3 kilometres away when I lay in bed at night and all it still. A subtle reminder that life awaits with yet more adventures just on the horizon.
It is not a closely guarded secret that period preceding – and during the move – was very stressful and often unnecessarily so. This too has come to pass and is past! Thankfully so, I might add.
The moving company left a lot to be desired and that is the politest way to put it. There was much that should have been done properly, things should not have been lost or stolen, or damaged. I spent a lot of my time emailing and on the phone with said unnamed company.
One night, lying in bed listening to the distant roar of the ocean, I realised I was missing the most important lesson of all out of the experience. Namely, that negativity is a sure fired way to attract more of the same! Not what I moved so far to achieve!
So while I was irate, exhausted, with thoughts of justice on my mind, I was missing the obvious. The damage was done. If you have to threaten a company into doing the right thing when they clearly they have no intention of doing so, you are simply perpetuating an undesirable situation. At that point suddenly they seemed interested in avoiding bad publicity. Sad it takes that much concerted and unpleasant effort to make someone suddenly sit up and want to do their part!
The lesson here is that it is not my position to punish or exact justice from an unpleasant situation. It was simply to listen more clearly to better internal knowledge, to let the past go, and to move forward with lightness on the consciousness.
I wishing everyone a wonderfully “light” Sunday afternoon!
