Stay Calm and Be on Vacation

This had to have been “on purpose”.  I just went on the most amazing vacation.  My daughter and I had so much fun, 24/7 for 8 days.  Okay, maybe there were a total of like 20 minutes all together that we weren’t having an absolutely fabulous time.  And we were in the FLOW.  I mean, synchronicity abounds kind of flow!  We would meet the “right” person, get the “right” travel tips, go the the “right” restaurants, have interactions with the “right” feral cats. 😉

We planned very little ahead of time.  Often we would decide the night before or the morning of each day what we were going to do.  Or, in the moment.  We traveled around the island (Puerto Rico) a lot.  In some parts, no one spoke English; good thing I can get by with the Spanish!  And yet, we drove right to almost every place that we wanted to be.  We had very little traffic.  Every adventure ended with an “I’m so glad we did this”, and feeling so blessed.  Almost as if we were supremely lucky to have had THAT experience.  And then the next one would be the same- just as awe-inspiring, in its own way.  THIS is what it’s like to live in that magical space around the clock!  All of a sudden, we were masters of continuous joy and love.

And you might think, hearing this, that nothing went “wrong” on our vacation.  In truth, there were plenty of things- what some would consider big things- that went wrong. AND I’m absolutely convinced that even those parts were on purpose; that my wise soul created all of those “mishaps” too to help me remember that when I stay in my place of being IN LOVE, all is well, no matter what.

Those of you who know me know that I am very organized and almost always on time.  So you’ll likely be surprised to know that we missed BOTH our flights- the one there, and the one home.  Yup, I miscalculated the time we needed to get up and get to the airport for and realized on the bus ride to Logan Airport that we were most definitely going to miss our flight.  Mind you, I have NEVER missed a flight in my life, and I’ve taken a lot of them.

Here’s the cool thing, though.  We were both so calm.  We laughed, and she looked up a phone number for me that I used to call and re-book the flights, at minimal cost to me.  In ten minutes it was all set.  An hour later, we were sitting in the airport, eating lobster and crab omeletes at Legal Seafoods, laughing about how perfect it was that we missed the flight, so we had time for such a yummy breakfast.

While we were there, my phone stopped working completely.  It had an error message that sounded very bad, like I wasn’t going to be able to have a phone for the rest of the trip, or worse.  I chose not to focus on it.  I shut it off, plugged it in, and the next morning it was working perfectly.  We could have made a big deal about it.  We could have hunted down a Verizon store, gone there, and tried to get them to fix it for me, spending time doing that instead of being on our vacation. That didn’t sound fun, so we didn’t do it.  Instead, we went to Old San Juan-which is amazing, by the way.

At one p0int we thought there was something drastically wrong with the rental car.  Didn’t freak out about that one, either.  Stay calm and be on vacation is my new motto.  (Oh, the car was fine.  I had accidentally slipped it into low gear without realizing it.  No harm done.)

What if we all just started doing this all the time?  Pretended we were on vacation.  Life could be just one big grand adventure, filled with love.  When things go wrong, we don’t have to focus on them.  We can keep focusing on ALL the so-many-more good things that are going right.  Most of the “problems” fix themselves this way.  Everything that is wrong is just an illusion anyway.  Nothing is wrong, ever, when we “keep calm and be on vacation”.


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