Quotation + Question = Questation. When we are on a quest to discover ourselves, it is imperative that we seek wisdom and we ask questions. Every Monday I pose a Questation, using quotes from the wise to help us ask the hard questions of ourselves. I Would love it if you share your answers. You can share them here in the comments or on the facebook page. Are you ready for your Quest?
“What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.”- Starhawk
Been thinking all day what my Questation would be today, usually I have a very clear idea and change my mind at the last minute, because I can, or because of the excitement of it. Funny to think I originally wanted to pre-write everything….hahaha… I’m hilarious!
Today I came across the above quote in a post, after reading Jessica Morrow’s fly your Freak-y Flag post. And I thought about it. I have gained the most in my life by being completely honest about myself to others. Not complain-y honest “oh I have the worst hair today” (fishing) and not Reflective honesty ” Oh you have bad breath just like me!” (Scary truth I really do have bad breath AND a love of onions and garlic that make it worse…just saying) and I am not talking about ‘doing the right thing’ and telling someone the honest truth about something you did to them they were blissfully unaware of, or something about themselves you think they need to know, that is truthfully just your perspective and/or opinion.
Revealing honesty, truth telling, about where you are, who you are and what you believe. You know what kind I am talking about the kind ‘that binds us together’.
So here are three truths about me:
I live with my man of nearly 9 years. I see nothing wrong with us living together and yet for the sake of ease here in the south we sometimes refer to each other as husband and wife. We have in fact been cornered and confronted about the state of our union. We love each other and wake up every day loving each other without a piece of paper to prove it. We are supposed to get married next year around our 10th year anniversary, and I am scared of this. Not of the marriage part (not anymore took a long while to get over that) but that it won’t be joyful because of finances, or planning. I want to have a joyful celebration of our past and future.
We live in an apartment, it is not large (except by NYC or Africa standards and then it’s a palace) our friends keep wanting us to buy a house. We don’t want to jump into a money pit of bone crushing debt and lost weekends of home repair, not yet anyway and at this point in our lives that is exactly what it would be. When we are ready we know what we want, we are on the same page and have talked about it, not a dream house our house.
I don’t want children. I have no desire, clock ticking, need, want. I am great with kids I have loved teaching kids, but not once in 15years was I tempted to bring one home. I am not choosing career over kids, I don’t want them at all and found a man who feels the same. ( although we of course complain about the others future parenting skills to our hypothetical children. Which always ends with ” Yet another reason we will not be having kids.” )
So your Questation should you choose to accept it is:
What will you risk to speak right now?
Remember you make your own rules. If you only want to answer one question go for it. Want to blog about this COOL just leave me a link here or on facebook so I can check it out and if you feel the call let your people know where this Questation came from then you get karma points, which is very cool.
In radiant love and sparkling light,
Exciting news…..
I have a new e-course coming this fall….
Available this friday 8/24/12 for pre-order….
It’s a surprise….
Hold onto your hats….
It’s going to be a bumpy ride!!!!!
Psst Here’s a hint:
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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