You can’t image my disappointment.
As a girl on the cusp of adulthood. Fed narratives by movies and media that life was going to be something big. Ordinary wasn’t what I was hoping.
I truly believed I was destined for something special. That isn’t what the fortune cookie said.
Does anyone eat those things? Or are we all in it purely for the woo-woo and potentiality they hold for us. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten one in my life.
What it said was…
“You will find yourself in the ordinary.”
That was it. That was the great magic that had come together to put this exact fortune cookie on my exact plate on this very day.
Ordinary.
That isn’t what I wanted to chase. So I chose to ignore the cookie and continue to seek out some sort of extraordinary path. Hoping some day I’d be beautiful enough, smart enough, talented enough just to be noticed and ascend into some sort of extraordinary life.
I grew tired, I misplaced myself and lost the way seeking something more.
But the twist in this whole tale is that time has seen me become nothing more than ordinary.
Ordinary is now exactly what I long to be.
I don’t know if it was motherhood that changed this perspective or getting punched in the ring of life over and over again that did it. But, I’ve come to settle on what ordinary is and I kinda like it.
In the end, the cookie was right.
The Gift of Ordinary
I’ve found such beauty in the smallest of everyday moments that move me in ways no Hollywood blockbuster kind of life every could.
The way the blossom unfurls in spring, tentative like a child at first then unashamedly confident in what it is. Beautiful for just a moment.
The scent of spice gently simmering on the stovetop and the delight of it’s taste in my mouth.
The throes of motherhood that shape me into someone I never thought I could or would become.
Gentle things. Small things. Ordinary things are where I have found the most magic in life.
In a world crying out for us to curate, become, post, rise, get richer, and be liked there is a real renegade quality to choosing to turn your gaze away from all of that and choose instead a simple and ordinary existence.
I’m really drawn to write about this type of living and share it with others doing the same. I thought this might be a nice space to do so.
So that is why I am reemerging and hoping to connect with other ordinary souls who also find beauty and life in the plain, simple, everyday things we sometimes forget to see.
I want to help open eyes, hearts and minds to a life more ordinary and teach people how to find the magic there.
Are you with me?