Sunday, March 31, 2013

Out of the Comfort Zone


Neal Donald Walsch once said, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”  Well, it seems that I have arrived at that place.  Break ups are never fun.  If you were to hand me an angry, injured spider and tell me to rehabilitate him, I would prefer that task to breaking up.  I am aware that endings are a natural part of the life cycle, but it is still hard.  I should be grateful that things are not worse.  For instance, it would be worse if “Tom Brady” had dumped me after a decade of being together. Do you remember a long time ago when Hugh Grant broke up with Elizabeth Hurley after 13 years together?  I was a teenager then, and I recall it blowing my mind, the idea, 13 years of dating.  On the other hand, you have Zsa Zsa Gabor, when I discovered she was with her 9th husband...(add 4 more and you’ve got a ‘baker’s dozen’ worth of husbands).  In Zsa Zsa’s case, till-death-do-us-part doesn’t really apply.  My current state of mind is reflected in the lyrics of the Madonna song “Jump.”  Here is an excerpt. 
We learned our lesson from the start, my sisters and me
The only thing you can depend on is your family
Life's gonna drop you down like the limbs of a tree
It sways and it swings and it bends until it makes you see
Are you ready to jump? Get ready to jump
Don't ever look back, oh baby
Yes, I'm ready to jump
Just take my hands, get ready to, are you ready?