A Detour Can Be a Good Thing.

"Some may try to detour you, but never let them derail you." 

~Me, 2017

Have you ever had one of those feet fly out from underneath you moments?

The phone rings, and the voice on the other end states, "I have something to talk to you about." Or maybe, "Things just are not working out." Or, "We have decided we need to go a different direction." It's one thing if there is a forecast of a storm coming your way, but wholly another when it flies out of a clear sky that appears to be devoid of any turbulence. You might just gasp, or gulp - my favorite thing is to utter, "What?" as though I definitely heard them wrong. Some of us think we can change the ongoing course of a storm if we just challenge it hard enough. But most of the time, there is no mistaking it. There's a detour ahead, and it will not be your choice. It's being forced upon you.

I'd like to tell you that you should smile and face the wind, but it's not that easy.

Foisted detours are fraught with emotion, and often you find yourself unable to show those emotions as you would like adequately. You don't want to be 'that person' who lost it and melted down at hearing the hard redirect. So you gather yourself together like a load of dirty sheets and disconnect, moving forward even if in a haze. 

But as the dust is still settling, it occurs to you that you are not finished.

While whomever you interacted with sighs with relief to have that over with, you are left to survey the both the damage and the road ahead, This is the classic moment in time that may define you for a long while. Realizing you have both choice and power, both elements that you felt slip from you in the detour bestowed upon you. There is a road ahead, and while it may be a different one than you envisioned, it is still YOUR road.

So now is not the time to look backward. 

Eyes forward.

Set an intention on your destination.

You're not at the end, just a new kind of beginning.

Cheers.