From Melody Ross, Freebird Nomads, Post in Facebook 2021
I'm writing this post in an effort to help you not be afraid of your worst fears....I wish I could instill a fearlessness in you for whatever happens next in your life....even if it ends up being your worst fear.
Because you'll find out so much about yourself and about life when you get the opportunities to live through your worst fears.
Never did I ever think that I wouldn't have a "real" house...or that I would be living in a little home on wheels. Never did I ever think that I would be doing laundry at random laundromats . . . taking turns at the washers and dryers with strangers from all over the world with different stories....who became friends and comrades while our jeans and t-shirts tumbled dry.
Gosh...."losing everything" was my biggest fear.
I think all of us who have lived through this transformative experience have realized that "losing everything" was not a complete sentence....
It should have read: "losing everything that was keeping us from seeing, feeling and experiencing the simple, profound, sacred and giggle-inducing mysteries of life."
Today I am appreciating the shedding . . . the deaths that were necessary for new births. The lessons, the shake-sense-back-into-you pain, the new experiences that come from living days of...."I wonder what in the world today will bring?"
Please don't be afraid, friends.
Life is on your side. As soon as you get over the motion-sickness that humongous life earthquakes bring....... you'll see the exquisite gifts that death+rebirth hold for us....in ways that could never happen otherwise.
It is meant to be, almost always. It is almost always for our good. It almost always turns out in miraculous ways that we never could have imagined. Sometimes it sucks on the way there.....but there are some destinations that are hidden behind crappy fields of obstacles. It just makes the arrival so much sweeter.
I love you
Hang in there!
melody ross
