I know how hard it feels when life has taken away something that we cherish so much and especially when life has taken a beloved one. The pain paralyses you, suffocates you and it gives you no chance to make the next or at least a small step towards the future. It could be even worse – you may see no future in front of you at all. And it’s not because there’s no future, but because pain is holding us back from everything wonderful that could be on our road ahead.
Let’s not blame life for being fair or unfair for whatever has come on our road, for that’s just our life schedule and we simply keep on following it the way it should be. We are the only managers, skillful and clever enough, who are able to lead it into that concrete direction which we would like it to be. There are nothing and nobody else who is more capable and responsible at the same time, to lead the company called “Me and Myself”.
That’s what I was trying to teach a friend of mine almost a year ago while she was struggling to overcome the loss of her beloved husband. Then she wasn’t able to see any future; she didn’t even want to accept there is such, as the charger of her life had already gone. It was so painful to observe how an inspired and always joyful musician was fading away from the world. Her piano was covered with a black cloth and reflected the melancholy music of her soul.
She came up with a thousand excuses why the piano should stay covered while I was convinced that the only way to get the grief over was to start playing again. The hardest thing of all was to make her believe that life can get better and it’s up to us to make that first step. I have to confess, I almost had to drag and drop her in front of the piano to do something we had been doing so many times before – she, playing the piano and me – singing next to her.
We opened the first piano chord book, as she had no idea what to play, and “Hey Jude” popped up out of the blue. That was great! She was playing, although it was quite difficult at the beginning, and I was singing as I felt like signing exactly that song. I didn’t pay any attention to the lyrics at that moment, as we were both much more involved into how to tune each other into the song. We kept on repeating it over and over again to actually make a sad song better.
A year later that song popped out of the blue again, while we were both enjoying the end of a successful week. I love synchronicity moments! This time, I tuned much more into the lyrics, talking about everything we did and managed to achieve in that period. My friend stepped into her new life, working on her dream project, right as her husband expected it to be. The piano is no longer covered as there’s a number of cheerful kids learning to play on it together with her.
So, take a sad song! Take whatever you are struggling with in your life right now, it could be even a dream that you want so badly to achieve, and make it better. Let it out and let it in and make sure that you can feel it. Don’t let yourself down as you can make your life better the moment you believe you can. Just go out there and get it, for you have already planned it this way. And don’t forget - you are the only executive manager of “Me and Myself” company.
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