Patterns: prompt
The Devil You Know
Changing your perspective on Life
I love all things Jimmy Buffet. He has a new CD out and I don’t think there’s a bad track on it.
The particular song I’ve included at the end of this piece speaks to a change in behavior as we get older — wiser perhaps?
For a long time after my divorce, I cut loose. I lived on the wild side and became very close friends with my ‘devils’. You can call it a mid-life crisis — Humans who knew me referred to me as the Fifty-Year-Old Teenager.
Purple hair, tattoos, motorcycle, rock concerts — I transformed — blossomed into a completely new version of myself. I broke nearly all the patterns or samsaras of My Old Life.
I even changed jobs — opting to return to my badass OR nursing position.
But keeping up those patterns was an exhausting task. At the time I put them in place, it felt like I had to swing the pendulum completely out of its natural orbit to be able to move forward. It was the only way through the swamp of my previous existence and old patterns.
As My Life has continued to transform — I have found myself releasing these patterns as well. Now granted the tattoos are forever — which is good because that shit is expensive! And I can’t imagine myself without purple hair…
