Enjoying the Journey: You Can’t Hurry… anything
Friday, June 1st, 2007Lately I keep hearing that song, “You Can’t Hurry Love” running through my head. I’m not trying to hurry love . . . but I am trying to hurry other stuff! 
I’ve been in a state of urgency for the past week or so, feeling like I’ve got to hurry up and finish the project I’m working on so I can hurry and move on to the next one, so I can hurry up and . . . need I go on?
Last evening after dinner I took a break to sit out on the deck and see if I could figure out why I feel so rushed lately. I tried to disconnect from stressful thoughts and tune into what’s happening inside.
As I gazed up into the sky and watched the sun sink below the horizon, I noticed a swarm of dragonflies buzzing quickly over the roof of my house. There were dozens of them, swooping and swirling through the air, around and around. I’ve never seen dragonflies do that before, so I watched for awhile. It turns out there was a cloud of gnats or other small insects in the air (I could barely see them because the sun was in my face), and the dragonflies were eating them.
What struck me the most was how gracefully they went about their busy work. They moved so fluidly and effortlessly - exactly the opposite of how I was feeling at the moment.
When I went inside a short while later, I looked up the Dragonfly in my Medicine Cards book and was surprised to see that Dragonflies often represent ILLUSION.
Instantly a thought occurred to me. Somewhere deep inside do I have the impression that things will be better once I reach some vague destination? Is THAT why I’m hurrying? Because things aren’t perfect in my life right now, and I want to hurry and get to where they will be?
HA! I should know by now that there is no such thing as perfection. Even more importantly, there is nowhere to “get to.” There is only right now. Here. In this moment.
It suddenly all made sense to me, why I feel so anxious, why I feel like I’m hurrying. I’m either running away from something or toward something instead of experiencing the beauty of the moment.
So you know what I have to do now, right? Why, enjoy the journey! Whoops, I knew that, but I somehow keep forgetting to actually DO it. Well, it’s not like I wasn’t enjoying the journey before, just maybe trying to shorten it a bit. Needlessly.
What about you? Are you trying to rush through something to reach a better place? Are you buying into an illusion in your own life? Tune into Dragonfly and break down the illusions that prevent you from experiencing the joy of now.
Wendy
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