"What Alice Forgot" by Liane Moriarty....is what I am listening on the route.
It is a novel about a woman who hit her head and lost 10 years of her life.
She woke up to being a mom of three and in the midst of divorce.
Her younger self didn't know what to make of the life she found herself in.
Her last memory was being totally in love with her husband and expecting her first baby.
What have you accomplished in the past 10 years and how would it be to have it all erased from your memory? What would your ten year younger self think of who you are today?
This is a remarkable thought, sitting where I am or more, where I came from.
Would I like to erase the past 10 years? When the past 12 have been the remaking of me...and, miss all the lessons and growing I have done.
I would miss all the pain of the growing and, all the brilliant insights and moments of personal successes.
I would miss the closing of relationships....and the openings of new ones.
I believe my younger self would be in awe of who I am today.
To feel the peaceful existence of my life.
She (Alice) wondered about relationships that had grown cold and distant....and realized the space grew from the lack of mutual truths.
When one or both pretended a truth didn't exist.
I understand this.
I truly believe that relationships are as close as each party is to their own truths.
When we have to pretend things are not as they are....the gap widens.
Truth or the inability for truth to live in relationships, is what defines them.
I love the path that I am on.
I love the direction I am going.
I love the relationships I have and welcome new ones along the way.
I love the energy of my life.
I love the new additions I am adding.
I love the falsenesses that I have had to let go of...and my ability to do so.
I love seeing what I have done in the past 10 years and its affects on my life.
Who I am today is beyond where I thought I would ever be.
And, it excites me to see who I will be 10 years from now.
What I do today will create the woman I am becoming...
