A
few weeks ago, I was filling up my car at the gas station. While standing there, I noticed a young
guy, about 28, filling up his car across from me. He was animatedly talking on the phone, with a super smug,
smirky look on his face – a look that I quickly realized was The Look of
Love. Young Guy was talking to his
New Love on the phone – I could just see it hanging all over him, like
Christmas lights. He was aglow and
afire!
Right
then and there, I just said to myself “I want to feel like that RIGHT
NOW.” I mean, what feels better
than that? (Disclaimer: my husband is a lovey – and we’ve been
together long enough that it’s not quite ‘like that’ anymore!) So there I am, pumping gas, just idly
looking off to the side and feeling totally, completely, utterly crazy in
love. Champagne-in-the-veins in
love. Not with anyone or anything specifically, I just let myself feel like I was … IN LOVE. A few minutes went by, pumping my gas, and I’m just standing
there, probably with that same smug, smirky, outrageous look on my face for no
good reason at all – and then I
looked up. Another young man,
Young Guy’s friend, was walking straight toward me, on his way back to their
car. He looked at me in a most
engaging and direct way and said
“Well, hi, how are YOU today?”
I
must have turned ten shades of red (not unusual for me, admittedly). I felt like I was just caught with my
pants down in the middle of the town square!! I mumbled a reply and raced off in my car, simultaneously
laughing and mortified. After the
fact, I had this funny vision in my head of how my energy might have ‘looked’
at that moment at the gas station – and it was probably similar to sending up a
flare or turning on a giant spotlight!
Whatever I was doing, it was really obvious to me that it was highly
perceptible by others on the same wavelength.
And
what is the world really made of but finding things to be in love with? And why can’t we just be ‘in love’,
without a specific object or person to aim those feelings toward? And if we can do that, shouldn’t we? Couldn’t we just stop at any point in our day and feel … in
love? No matter what was going on? And wouldn’t that add something beautiful to your world and
the world around you? Just a
thought.
So,
for no reason at all, turn on your spotlight, send up a flare. It will be seen and received somewhere. And it WILL come back to you!
Note: For those of you who were dying to hear
me speak at Happiness Club on August 31st, apparently Mother Nature
had different plans. I will be
rescheduled soon, at exactly the right time, no doubt, and will keep you
posted!
Love,
MJ
p.s. Thanks to Young Guy #1 and #2.
