Tag Archives: letting go

letting go + palm springs

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One year older. I realized some things this past weekend… one thing was my mother (I haven’t seen/spoken to her for almost a year; my choice). There are still many times I get angry and upset and many of my reactions stem from the past with her. But a lot of why I get angry is my mind not understanding why. Why she did this, that, why she can’t understand me, why both our souls were put together in this life, why she is the way she is.

But a thought popped into my head and told me, I’m just going to let go… I don’t need to understand why because it is what it is. She is emotionally stunted along with many other mental problems and irrational fears (that’s putting it nicely; I think she is a monster) so why even try to piece all that together.. it’s like trying to understand an unsolved mystery. Sometimes things don’t have explanations (like life, I suppose). The same goes for people too. I spend wasted energy trying to figure people out but… unsolved mysteries.

It doesn’t mean I’m “healed” or forgive her (I wish forgiveness was as easy as some people make it sound–even if you forgive it takes a long time for that energy to transform into complete peace. Or perhaps I have challenges with forgiveness which is why this is my situation in this lifetime to learn how to do so..)

I may have a lot of things to work through but one thing I’m not going to be held back by is fear. I’m not afraid if it takes me til the moment before I die or when I’m in the darkest place of shadows. At least the dark place is real.

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But anyways, Paris has been pushed back til the end of May (YAY) and Palm Springs was…. duh, hot. We judge cities by their food and this place has a bunch of glorified IHOPS. Food snobs, perhaps?

But I’ll give credit to Purple Palms. It was pretty nice and anytime you get a whole fish head stuffed with surprises is a good sign.

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Currently reading Taco USA. Does anyone else besides me get cravings for a taco so HARD? Like, every hour of the day?  If you want good mexican food… go to a shop with a B rating. Trust me (& not the roaches on the floor).  And if this doesn’t cancel out the food snob in me, I don’t know what will.

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(I love this shirt. It’s from my friend’s clothing line Hardcouture. And the gold shark tooth necklace is from her store too :) )

breaking apart your patterns

Reminiscing and found my old journals from 2011. That was a crazy year. I guess it was one of those years where you would look back when you’re 75 and say “That was a crazy year”

I was living in Hollywood for 5 or 6 years already (this is starting to sound like a sad biography..), going out all the time, partying, meeting interesting characters, shopping, you know, being a Hollywood rat. There are a looot of rats out here.

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Anyways, a lot of things happened (a devastating break up, liars, not knowing who to trust, basically that hole you get into where you’re like What the fuck am I doing with my life?) and that’s when I made a conscious decision to cut certain people out of my life, stop going out, stop hanging out with losers, stop caring about unimportant crap. I started reading more, writing again, spending a LOT of time alone, donating and selling more than 75% of everything I owned, meditation retreat, started this blog, went on a solo 4-month trip to South America. I made a pact with myself: If who I’m hanging out with or what I’m doing isn’t a soul-enriching experience for myself or the other person then I’m not doing it. And I still live by that. There’s too many other things I could be doing. I’d rather be reading a book by myself than hanging out with a bunch of people pretending to talk about something. (It’s so true what they say–Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are.)

One thing I’ve learned is if someone is scared of your direction of growth, they will say anything to discourage it. Most likely because they discourage themselves…

So I went to South America by myself with a decent amount of savings (and I don’t care what anybody says; If you’re young and traveling is what you want to do, what do you keep saving money for? Take your savings immediately, go somewhere and come back with zero), little to no knowledge of spanish, one duffel bag, volunteered for half and travelled for the other half. It was the best thing I ever did and I met so many great people with curious, optimistic mindsets.

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That was almost 2 years ago (and after South America, I kept traveling – Costa Rica, Europe) and now I still live in Los Angeles but I have the life I envisioned–well I wouldn’t even say envisioned, it’s more like a feeling you know in your gut–for myself from my true core, but I had all those layers before blocking it away–and I’m still working on removing more layers. I’m truly a believer of dreaming big and if you’re dissatisfied with your self/life (which I’m sure happens many times in one lifetime), it’s because there’s something bigger and better waiting for you; waiting for you to break apart the old patterns and layers that don’t serve you anymore. ♥

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If you’re telling your friend something that makes you happy and you get the feeling that they’re not happy for you and attempts to analyze or be critical, what do you do? Cut ties? Or realize that it could be from jealousy/insecurity and find some compassion somewhere deep inside?

I’m finding the compassion thing very hard  because it feels like instead I am stuffing my own emotions inside.

But then, I ask myself “Why does this bother me; what is it touching…” It can really never end :)

On to good news.. St Martin, Caribbeans in less than one month. A much needed vacation. Maybe we will find that little hammock above the sea?

And others news.. I am obsessed with Scrabble.

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children

“Healing our unresolved childhood issues would accomplish two separate things:  First, it would make us far better and less abusive parents, because when we heal our traumas we don’t pass them on to our children, and second, because of this, any children we had would be far healthier stewards of the earth and better parents too, because they wouldn’t be so traumatized, and thus, by extension, destructive.”

This sums up exactly why I have believed I don’t want to have children until I feel completely at peace, healed from it all, and in which case, may never happen. But I’m ok with that. Because in being conscious of this and having a child anyways, thinking they might complete you, seems selfish. If you ask most people why they want children, you never really receive a satisfactory, selfless answer..

And I’ve also been thinking… that we are each products of a line of our ancestors, extending back years and years. Think of all the repressed anger, confusion, hurts that are now placed in each of us and either acted out, expressed or repressed again, over and over. That energy doesn’t just dissipate and go away. I feel pain so strong sometimes that for me — and maybe it’s just a comfort, an excuse — but it gives me comfort realizing that it’s not just “me.” It seems to be all the repressed pains within families that have been passed down. I know in this day and age, (some) people are pretty conscious whether or not they want or are ready for children but I can’t imagine generations before — having them only because it was expected, it was supposed to be. So is it really surprising to see some of the horrid acts of humanity today?..

I don’t know… just things I have been thinking about lately.

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longing for the sea

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“For all humankind and through all the ages, the sea has been the great symbol of unconscious. The islands across the sea, the exotic kingdoms and distant lands, have always represented the Great Unknown. Our longing for these places of mystery, magic, flying carpets and genies has a deep inner meaning. It is our nostalgia for the hidden potentialities within our own souls: for what we have never known, never lived, never dared.”

 

ben smythe

This guy is hilarious and so refreshing…

 

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fall apart

We are not striving to make pain go away or to become a better person. In fact, we are letting concepts and ideals fall apart. -Pema Chödrön

 

Our Age