Throughout these conversations and taking time to prepare for change I have had no choice but to meditate on the process I am currently going through. The image of a roller coaster immediately came to mind as I connected the excitement of riding one with the excitement of achieving my goals. Along with the anxiety of getting to the peak of the hill and the anxiety of pursuing my dreams. For those who share the same thrill, the best moments of the roller coaster are the twist, turns and downhills, not the waiting in line or ticking your way to the top, but let us not overlook it so quickly.
Picture this with me, you are strapped into a cart and it is slowly climbing its way to the tip of the hill, only to whip its way down on the other side. You look around and see the theme park getting smaller and smaller as you climb higher. The voices below begin to fade away and all you hear is the wind blowing against your hair. Your heart beats a little faster and a little harder with each click from the cart. There is no turning back at this point, and if you are afraid of heights you are facing your greatest challenge. Although you are nervous you are still excited, for the best part is to come.........the drop.
Some of us may hate that moment of slowly getting to the top. It can be very nerve wrecking, but we need to realize that the ride is not complete without that process. See, the process of making it up the hill, the process of feeling anxious, the process of your heart beat racing all comes with the roller coaster ride. Would you agree that once you sit in the cart and you are strapped in, that is when the ride begins not when you are going down hill?
In the same way, my goals and dreams have already begun. My answer, "yes, but not yet" means I have begun pursing my passion but I have not yet achieved it all. Instead of wanting the end to come so quickly, I need to realize that the process I am going through now is part of my goals and dreams. As a matter of fact, I don't have the finish line with out the track set before me, which is the process.
My question is this, "why are we in such a hurry to make it to the end? When the process that takes us there is just as edifying and fulfilling as the completion of our race?"
What I realized today was that I need to take more time to be grateful for this process that I am going through, whether it is a difficult one or not. I will never get to experience this moment again, so why am I so rushed to escape it? I can learn so much if I just slowdown and meditate on what is going on.
My encouragement to myself and you is that just like we anxiously enjoy the ride up on a roller coaster let us enjoy the different processes we are going through in life. We think we hate process, but it is in our nature to want to hunt, to want to pursue. I never understood why hunters would hunt or fishermen would fish and then let go of the prey, but now I know it is formed in us.
We love to chase......for this same reason 5th grade girls chase boys, hunters catch their prey and then let it free and men pursue women.
Start processing the process you are going through, you might actually learn to like it and grow from it.
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