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You ever experienced such a magnetic pull toward a life shift that you're nearly being dragged toward it against your will? The first time I experienced this was when I moved to Colorado from Minnesota after college – I cried everyday, A LOT. My then-boyfriend, now-husband was finishing up school, three months behind me in the move. I lived in a cabin in the mountains, worked at a restaurant in the evenings and ski'd Arapahoe Basin during the day, teaching myself to ski fast on icy hills with bluebird skies. It was amazing! But I was so depressed, and while I could've just moved myself back to Minnesota, I somehow knew I needed to be there. That time in my 20s was formative, and those friendships I made still enrich my life.
The next time it happened was when my husband and I packed up our life in Denver, bought one-way tickets to Buenos Aires, traveled until our money ran out, and then moved back to Minnesota. Another deep mangetic pull against my wishes. I hated it here at first and I resented anyone who was glad to have us back. I remember sobbing while signing a lease for a new apartment. I missed our old life terribly. And I had created this suffering voluntarily.
Then there was the pull that brought me here, to this, to the Locket Sisters. I was on maternity leave with my daughter. I had in a career in the non-profit world that I really enjoyed, yet for years and years I could feel that there was something else, that this wasn't it. While searching for the source of that pull I'd looked into grad schools, became a yoga teacher, got certified in Reiki I and II. I told my sister, Amy, that I was going to become a photographer, and she said “so POOF you're a photographer now?!” I resigned, and then went for a walk with my family, terrified and liberated. Broke, too.
Amy and I started a photography business, and from that seed, the Locket Sisters was born eight years ago. One lead to another, lead to another, and another and another. Over and over again, pulling me where I need to, it's like my body remembering the future, and it only makes sense in hindsight.
There's another pull happening to me now, but this time I think I know where it's gonna lead me. In fact, I think it might lead a few of us, but only the gift of retrospect can answer that. I just gotta stay out of my own way and trust the physics behind the magnetism.
After all, that's what created the Locket Sisters eight years ago.
Warmly,
Allyssa