Back To School... Back To Work

It's been years since I have been in school and a few years since I have had to get a child ready for school. So, it was with some pleasure that I watched, on Facebook, parents preparing for a new school year and people preparing to go back to work. It made me think of the song by Soul ll Soul - “Back To Life”. The song says, “show me how/ decide what you want from me/tell me maybe I could be there for you/however do you want me/however do you need me”. I love that phrase.

For the last roughly eighteen months a phrase that has resonated with me has been “be what is wanted and needed”. I have begun to learn to trust that life has me and that things fall into place, even if I don’t understand how. Part of that learning process has been the realization that sometimes when I just show up, with no agenda, my “me-ness” has been what was wanted and needed. Being present to the moment, going with the flow, taking a  moment to just breathe, has… lately…  allowed me to look at things and life from a different perspective. It has worked out so well that now I choose to show up to places and events with no expectation other than to be what is wanted and needed when it is wanted and needed. That has served me well - sometimes I have gone to places only to discover that there is someone there who is wanted and needed by ME! So I am not only a blessing to others, sometimes someone is a blessing to me.

So, today is not a back to school day for me, nor is it a back to work day for me, but it is a “back to the present time” day for me. But it is a day to remember that I don’t live in the future ( although I do prepare for it) and I no longer live in the past (finally let that go). It is a day to remember I live in the present moment and when I find myself slipping back to old habits I remind myself to focus on the present, to be what is wanted and needed in my life as well as others. This is serving me.

For those of you dealing with back to school and back to work, remember to stop and breathe. Remember that you can be present to the moments of school and work. You can be what is wanted and needed in school, at work, and in your life. “Back to” can be a good thing. However do you want it? However do you need it? you can be it? Let’s all get back to it.