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Eve55


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So last night started poorly.  Got home and H is not there. His bike is gone, so I know he's out with one of two people. In either case I know what he is up to.  But still I was kind of surprised that he was out because we had been planning all week to go see Shakespeare in the Park that evening.

So I decide to work on repainting a bench in the backyard.  I had planned to do it beforehand so I might as well go ahead and do it now.

A while passes and I get a badly written text message from H.  He will be home "soon".  Another bad sign because, I don't even have text messaging as part of my plan, I have to pay extra for that. He just didn't want to try to speak to me at that point...

So I keep painting and eventually finish painting the bench.  Now it's an hour a half before the start of the play and a hour and a half since the text message. Still no H.

So I cook dinner for myself, and decided that I'm not going to sit around the house wondering and waiting.  I'm going to go to the play anyway, even if I am by myself.  I get ready, get in the car and start driving down to the park.

Halfway there is starts POURING rain.  I'm disappointed because that probably means that the play is cancelled.  But I keep driving because I don't want to go home.  I go to the park anyway, maybe the rain will stop.  Maybe I'll just go for a walk in the rain, I don't know...

I was so sad, so angry, so lonely.  I don't know where to go, what to do.

I'm looking around the park and looking at the pavilion and then I see clubs and balls being tossed into the air.  There are jugglers hiding from the rain, in the pavilion. There are a lot of jugglers there!

So I go to see what's going on.  I walk up and they immediatly ask me if I'm there to juggle! Do I want to learn?! They introduce themselves to me. They ask me my name! They lend me a set of balls and start teaching me how to juggle!

I learn that they are a group that meets in the park every week to juggle, ride unicycles, blow balloon animals, etc... My evening transformed, from an evening of disappointment and anger, into a evening of lighthearted and childlike amusements!

I found myself surrounded by kind and friendly people.  They invited me to dinner, even though I told them I had no money.  And we sat around the table talking to each other, learning about each other and playing with puzzles and board games.

Today, I still find myself filled with some sadness, but I also feel so grateful that my memories of last night are not filled with anger and worry.

Instead, because I took action and decided to seek something different for myself, I have happy memories of simple joys and a reinforced sense that there are good, kind and friendly people out there in the world!

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Christy


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Eve,

I love this!!  Your last sentence says it all.
When I used to leave my house because I didn't want to subject myself to what was going on, often I would discover new and exciting things.  I was full of resentment at first, but many, many times it turned out well.
I began to see my leaving for a few hours as an adventure.  "What will I come upon this time?"
I realized too, that HP, Universe, Source often set things into play just for me and I was always grateful.

Christy



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This was a beautiful share! I wish for you to share it and have it printed up somewhere! The pictures you made in my head were so colorful and had lotsa smiles!
 thank you!!!!!

so happy for you. Hp gotcha huh? HP knows what we need. What we really need.

My son and a group play all kinds of drums and stuff at the park, people come around and play stuff too. I have gotten him lots of African instruments someone just widdiled and added some metal pieces. or a string of large seeds.

Juggling is soooo cool. Have to tell him about that.

You made my painting today much better. hugs,debilyn

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WOW! What a great story. I am so happy that you got into your car and went to the play. I think HP had something else in mind that was probably taking your mind off the negative things.

Good for you........

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smile (((((hugs))))) smile  smile  smile  smile  smile



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What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing!

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