Ah, a blog that isn’t social media. Nice.
I’m starting to believe that Marie Kondo’s method of discovering yourself really does go above and beyond what anyone suspects of it until they’ve been through it. At the same time, there’s a reason I let her book live on my shelf for 5 years before I was suddenly “ready” for it after reading Benjamin Hardy’s book. Transformations happen, whether you’re looking for them in one place or another, even if you don’t realize you’re looking. Aside from books recently read, I can credit my expansive feeling lately just as much to my relatively new Tarot reading hobby, to the instagram astrology accounts I follow, to the Headspace meditations I’ve been doing on and off for 3 years. Sometimes, it’s just time for a breakthrough, and the messaging will come through every channel possible.
I quit my dev job and ran off to Europe with minimal planning at the beginning of the summer ostensibly because a Tarot reading encouraged me to do so and because my brother called my bluff when I asked him if he’d theoretically like to join me. But realistically, I did those things because I was ready to do them. I was ready to stop pretending I didn’t have aspirations. I just needed a way to externalize my own motivations and examine them from the outside. Tarot cards do that. Books do that. The idea that you get what you want from a book/card is common, but I’m just now figuring out that you can figure out what you want by taking a second look at what it is you’re getting.