Life Stage

I am moving and in that process, I decided to place an ad on Craigslist. After one week and a half, I began to receive e-mails and phone calls. Yesterday, I sold my first item to a woman named Guadulupe*.

Guadulupe informed me that she and her husband had recently moved into their new place and she needed the Bakers Rack I had for sale in her kitchen. What a time we had loading this into her car. At first, we did not have the tools needed to take it apart, then; there was the spacing issue in her trunk. After some trial and plenty of error, we were able to load it into her trunk and backseat after borrowing a tool from my neighbor and doing some maneuvering.

We were making small talk, and then she said, “It’s amazing how you go through life. My husband and I didn’t really date, we had a long distance relationship but we have known each other since we were children. I went from being single – to married- to a mom.” You all know me. Once she uttered that statement, instantly my mind started thinking about the life stages we go through and the transitions we make, some instantly, some over time. Some avoidable: but not inevitable.

As Guadulupe, I would hope that you would embrace your life stage with an open mind and heart as she did. Just in my small interaction with her, I could tell that she was strong physically (I mean the girl could lift)! Even climbing inside of her trunk to move a tire and a speaker… talk about strength!  I could tell that she was an independent woman, learning to be handy around the house, during times of her husband’s absence.

I have been in a transitional period, since January 2012. But, this has not been my only time. I have been through several transitions in the past several years. I embraced some and fought against the others, nevertheless, each time they have made me a better person and revealed a little more of my character as I went on. The important thing to remember in a transition is to move. You must be able to move from where you are. You must be able to see a situation for what it really is, acknowledge the truth about it and you and decide. Decide to be the best you that you can be. Decide to learn the lesson. Decide your next steps, and then carefully lay out a plan to carry them out. This is not to say that you will not fail along the way, because you very well may. Falling down is not the issue; the issue is in whether you decide to get back up again.

What about you? What has been your most influential transitional period? What did you learn from it? What did you change as a result of it? How did it make you a better person? Leave a comment below..