I was driving back down to the city after having decided to move out of my dream house and felt miserable, wondering if I’d made the right decision in upending my entire life or needed to tough it out. At a stoplight in a rural town, a little girl in the car beside mine caught my eye and started waving, so I waved back. Her sister joined…
I was driving back down to the city after having decided to move out of my dream house and felt miserable, wondering if I’d made the right decision in upending my entire life or needed to tough it out. At a stoplight in a rural town, a little girl in the car beside mine caught my eye and started waving, so I waved back. Her sister joined in. We ended up keeping pace with each other in traffic for the next five or six miles, laughing and waving back and forth the entire time. That fleeting experience not only brought me back into my body, but back to being eight, nine, ten-years old and doing the same thing in the back of my mom’s car or on a bus. It was freeing, silly, and so fun.
I was driving back down to the city after having decided to move out of my dream house and felt miserable, wondering if I’d made the right decision in upending my entire life or needed to tough it out. At a stoplight in a rural town, a little girl in the car beside mine caught my eye and started waving, so I waved back. Her sister joined in. We ended up keeping pace with each other in traffic for the next five or six miles, laughing and waving back and forth the entire time. That fleeting experience not only brought me back into my body, but back to being eight, nine, ten-years old and doing the same thing in the back of my mom’s car or on a bus. It was freeing, silly, and so fun.