Two years ago, between the end of June and beginning of July 2019, one of my closest friends & I met up here in Colorado for a “ fun girl trip” together, she coming from the East Coast and I from the West Coast. That summer, we were both trying to get over some upsetting and confusing emotional situations, and that trip (apart from being an excellent excuse to see each other again!) was meant to be a fun, healing, liberating getaway. And I believe it really was.
This summer, two years later, she and I have come back to Colorado for our vacations, independently, with separate group of friends and mostly in different parts of the State. But we were able to meet up briefly again yesterday, after not having seen each other for two whole years. And it was so lovely! We’re both stubborn, strong-willed persons and we each depended partly on other people for our plans, so we almost didn’t make it to see each other. And that would have seen such a shame! Although in some ways our interests have diverged a bit during these past two years and we have each overcome our difficult emotional situations from two years ago in different ways, reaching different solutions at a different pace, our brief meeting yesterday was the highlight of our day — and maybe the most beautiful part of it is that we both felt the same joy in meeting.
The brief meeting yesterday with my dear friend from the East Coast has been one of many instances of healing through friendship, love, and connection that I have been experiencing during my stay here in Colorado. For over two weeks now, I feel I have been literally surrounded by love, acceptance, hospitality, friendship, and positive aspects of family-like emotions/situations.
This is turning out to be one of the most healing trips/experiences ever for me. That trip to Colorado two summers ago was lovely, for me, in the sense of fun and liberating (which was exactly what I needed then). This time, I’m being truly healed in a sweet, profound and liberating way — which is turning out to be exactly what I needed now (although I hadn’t realized it so clearly until a week or so into my trip). I think it hasn’t been until this trip that I have totally liberated myself, at last, from that upsetting and confusing emotional situation that I was trying to overcome in the summer of 2019. And this healing liberation has come a lot from the solo part of my road trip, from the adventures on which I’ve been going both on my own and with other people here, from the self-confidence that these adventures and experiences, interactions and connections have been rekindling in me; but this healing liberation has also come in a gentle yet powerful way from the warmth and acceptance I have been feeling — soaking in like the sunshine & heat here — from all these wonderful persons around me, from all these friends, old and new.
So thanks to you all, my friends, old and new!
The Little Prince and the Fox 