{"id":8252,"date":"2016-02-16T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/?p=8252"},"modified":"2016-02-16T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:43:34","slug":"fnd-pax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2016\/02\/fnd-pax.html","title":{"rendered":"FND PAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from my chiropractic appointment with my friend Darin Mazepa, from whose office I leave always feeling like I received a spiritual tune up along with an entrainment, \u00a0I was listening to the song by Lake Street Dive called <em>Call Off Your Dogs<\/em>. I have heard it a gazillion times, but today the line, &#8220;You got me wishing that I&#8217;d never said hello,&#8221; jumped out at me. It had me thinking about all of the people and experiences I have said hello to throughout my life. Some I am overwhelmingly grateful that I did and others, sometimes wished I hadn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Then I wondered what my life would be l<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ike had they not walked into it. Even with emotional turmoil and challenges some\u00a0carried with them, even with the ways that I was tested to be true to myself and my values, even with sleepless nights and anger storms that raged within me, since I rarely allowed them to flood people around me, \u00a0I want to live not to regret any of the hellos. Some were lovers, others friends and co-workers. One was with my husband of 12 years that brought with it all kinds of paradoxical interactions. I can clearly recall the moments when our various paths diverged and we were\u00a0irreversibly plunged into each other&#8217;s lives. Eye contact. Hand shakes. Hugs. Words of greeting. In several cases, as I think back, I am reminded of my favorite line from Jerry Maguire (no, it&#8217;s not &#8220;Show me the money.&#8221;) It is &#8220;You had me at hello.&#8221; \u00a0Indeed some did. I smile wistfully at a few, and wonder how things got as messy or complicated as they eventually did. With a dabbling\u00a0of these folks, I carry decades of memory scripted in my head as it would be in a journal. Some actually were documented in my journals; a few I have kept for more than 30 years. As I have read them, I shake my head at how far I have come in my thoughts about relationships and then there are times when I am in bewilderment that I STILL have some of those dysfunctional beliefs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">As I began to re-write the stories in my head, which is challenging enough, let alone doing it while driving on busily traveled, 18 wheeler clogged PA Route 309 in the torrential rain, I saw a car pull in front of me with the license plate FND PAX (Find Peace) and of course I laughed at the synchronicity of it. When I simply allow life to be as it is, then I do find it. It was too rainy to take a picture of it, but I will call it into my awareness when I find myself regretting anything; whether they are hellos or goodbyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=55ogVu_CQiM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way home from my chiropractic appointment with my friend Darin Mazepa, from whose office I leave always feeling like I received a spiritual tune up along with an entrainment, \u00a0I was listening to the song by Lake Street Dive called Call Off Your Dogs. 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