So, here we are again! How fast is your year going? Is it possibly as fast as mine? Faster? Well, let me tell you it has flown by so far! I have gotten to do many different things so fare this year, and so much that is still yet to come. I am not sure how I am going to do it all. However, I am feeling good on it because this time last year was not doing to hot.
I was living a in place that I hated! I wasn't on top of anything. I became complacent in so much in my life that I still feel like I am trying to get back into gear now. What I soon found out last year is that everything can change in a matter of moths. I am now in a much better place, and much happier. Yes, I do get behind and feel like I am not a certain level that I was in years past. However, I know that sometimes that I just part of life. I am loving what I am doing, and even though I am a bit behind. I am doing way better that I was so. Life can change when you least expect it.
I don't think there are too many characters that know this lesson better than these two, Vivian and Edward.
If you don't know the movie Pretty Woman than you need to go and see if soon!
Edward is a millionaire who you would think would have his life together. However, we soon learn that is had failed at yet another relationship. In a blur, he borrows his friend's car, and travels that streets of New York and meet Vivian. Vivian is a prostituted that who basically had to grow up in this life style because she didn't know of any other way to make money. She takes the "job" from Edward thinking it would be like every other normal night. However, when the hotel she is taken back to is the one for people is a tax bracket she could only dream of, she has a hard time being a professional.
The next morning, Edward asks her to stay for the week and would pay her thousands of dollars, and lost of new clothes, for her to be his date for the week. In that time she befriends many different people to help her to pass as someone in this totally different world she has been thrown into. She handles it beautifully, all while still being true to herself.
Vivian and Edward part ways, and see that so many people saw more protentional in her than she ever saw in herself, she takes a leap of faith and leaves her life of prostitution. She soon realized that she doesn't have to do it alone as Edward has fallen in love with her and is willing to help her in any way he can.
This is one of those movies that I have seen many times before, but I always forget just how good it is, and how much fun it is to watch. It's witty, personable, and has great character development through the whole thing. The truth is there to that where you are now is not what we are always meant to stay. That we can be better, or worse, than where we started. That sometimes to be better you have to be worse than where you are not. The most important is, your past does not define you.
I think we all struggle with that. We all think that we are not good enough for something, or that we aren't capable of it. That thinking that daring to think that we can be better one day is a sin. That we are only as good as our last mistake, or our last success. That's just now true. There is more to each of us in that first encounter that we have with the world. That you can only be at rock bottom, or on top of the world with no in between and that is not true. There are so many parts of use that change all though our lives that one thing can be true at one point and then be the opposite later on.
Knowing ourselves means that we are never fully going understand ourselves.
We are constantly learning and changing and we have to be ok with that. We are never going to look, act, feel, or the same our whole lives. Knowing that we are constantly growing and changing is how we know to be kind out ourselves and keep learning about us. Being stuck in one place for took long can become a danger to us.
I think that this is way I love doing these yearly project. Trust me when I started out they weren't meant to happen every year. It started with and idea that grew into this!
I love that they push me forward, and give me something to think about. That I get to have something that I enjoy without anyone else interfering in them, or telling me how to do them. I can set the limits, and create the rules as I go or enforce them how I see fit. The projects help me to have something to do and look forward to, and then also makes me feel good when I push my own boundaries, and do things I never thought possible, or would ever dare try to do!
I think it's a great way to get out of your comfort zone, without having to go nuts and go too far. It's a great way express yourself and try new things in a manageable way.
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