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The morning light was still playing with the green shade of the curtain when her fingertip gently pressed the long, oval button, on the side of her mobile. She could hear her breath feeling lighter. Finally, off. Cut off from the outside world. Just she, herself and her blue pajama.
No zoom conferences, no phone rings, no unexpected visits. Motionless secret days, her undeniable truth. She called those days “Lemon days”. She never said why. Maybe the counting of the many sour days before her freedom? Or maybe the lemon-yellow happiness of their glow?
Memories left in a long-forgotten past are dripping the essence of her being into the present. I remember that peculiar day, 30-something years ago. We were kids, good kids, good grades, good manners, good laughs, good parents. Sparkling smiles in the last days of school, magical plans, magical travels…
Long blond untamed hair randomly shading the brightness of her eyes, unrestricted joy and excitement, energy tricked into a forceful mind. She said “no, I’m not going”, minutes before finishing packing for that well-deserved trip. “All I want is to stay home, alone,” Carmen said as she started placing her colorful socks back into the white drawer.
“Is that behavior normal for a child?” murmured the neighborhood minds preoccupied with defining the “normal”. “Who gives up seaside fun for well-known dullness?”
But trying to explain why some of us love mugs painted in bright colors, and, others are happy with the bare white, would throw our minds into a meaningless quest.
It’s been years since her quiet steps last wandered on the narrow streets of her small childhood town. It’s been years since she made peace with her own oddness, since she spoke up her truth and gave others permission to love her. It’s been years since she allowed her thoughts to no longer hurt her.
Day in, day out, around the clock, in our eventful lives, we judge, we want to understand, we want to control… We gratify our intrusive thoughts with useless information, while the answer is always simple: “all mugs are beautiful”. And if we listen deep enough, and visible enough, we can all hear this answer as our own reverberating echo.
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About the Author
Olimpia Modorcea
Olimpia is an International Personal Development Coach and the founder of HAPPY IN LIFE private practice (www.happyin.life).
She is a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy® and Creating Your Future, HST Therapy, Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis, NLP Coaching and a Certified High Level Psychic.
A resourceful entrepreneur, with a successful international career in Payments Industry, a Master Degree in Engineering, an Executive Certificate in Global Management, Olimpia has a unique experience that delivers concrete results in her coaching.
You can contact Olimpia at olimpia@happyin.life.
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