Jennifer Louden is known as “The Comfort Queen” and featured on many globally recognised TV shows, including Oprah, with over 800,000 copies of her first book sold internationally. She is the world's leading authority on carving out the time and desire to look after your own well being and hence achieve more with less stress despite having a very busy life.
I read the most beautiful poem in LIFE IS A VERB by Patti Digh last night. I love this book - Patti has taken what could be a hackneyed subject--how would you live if you had 37 days left? - and made it sing through her deep heart and generously wonderful writing.The poem lost and found which is: we have to accept being lost before we even think about being found and we have to accept that being found may never feel or look the way it did before that moved me so is at the beginning of the first chapter and my favorite lines are:
"Being lost only has meaning
When contrasted with
Knowing where you are
A presumption that slipped out of my life
As quietly as smoke up a chimney
For now I live in a less anchored place
Where being lost is irrelevant"
I found the poem strangely comforting as if being lost was not such a bad thing once you got used to it and what is lost and what is found anyway? Then Patti reveals that the poem was written by a man in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease. Hmmm... still, I felt comforted. So many people tell me they feel lost and bewildered; does that make bewildered the new black and does it look good on everybody? I mean, if so many of us are feeling lost, at least in some parts of our lives, could it mean we are looking for a new found, a new territory that we can't even imagine but we certainly can't find the way we found our way the last time?
I'm getting lost writing this post.
Which leads me to all that I know today for sure about being lost, we got lost this time. We have to let go of the story that being found or "knowing what we are doing" is better than where we are right now.
What does lost and found mean to you these days?