Has there ever been a time in your
life when an experience changed you forever even though you didn’t know it was
going to at the time.
When I was a kid living and growing
up in Houston going to the movies was something we did to amuse
ourselves. I remember going to a movie
called It Happened to Jane starting
Doris Day and Ernie Kovacs. It was a cute
movie with lots of middle of the story angst and Doris winning as usual but
that’s not what caught my attention. In
the opening scene, Ernie was sitting at a table making his way through a
lobster. Now this might not seem
significant to most people but I had not been exposed to lobster eating. I thought, “So that how it’s done.” I was mesmerized watching him, but at some
point, something stirred inside me. I realized there was a lot of world out there I wasn’t part of. I was witnessing an evolving world I wasn’t
evolving along with. I felt I was living
in an atmosphere that wasn’t in step with what was going on in other
places. I questioned, “How could these
things be going on without me being involved?” 
After leaving the theatre, I went
on with my daily life. I didn’t go out
and shout that I was leaving Houston to find that other world but eventually
that is what did happen.
I look back on that experience and
think: are we given glimpses that
someday we will use to propel ourselves onto a different path? Even if we forget them for years are they there
in our subconscious mind growing and getting ripe for the right time and
opportunity to be expressed? Are they
some sort of hidden catalyst that eventually surfaces causing us to make some
of the decisions we do?
So, the question here is: Can we look back at some of our experiences
and say, “Hum, I wonder” and start connecting the dots?
💟 Marian
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