It’s amazing how easily we adapt to change. Sometimes
without even realising we have until something happens to make us see just how
adaptable we really are.
Yesterday morning I was driving my car to work. A new car
that we got under protest from me because I like being high up and this car is
low to the ground almost – at least that’s what I thought when I first got in
it. We got this car because my husband
said he is sick of driving around in a car that has no power or get up to it.
He said he wanted a real car.
So when I first got into our car three weeks ago, I was
terrified because I have not driven a car so low to the ground since we had our
son 13 years ago when I had to give up my low to the ground convertible for a
family mobile as I like to call them. Our son hated being in the backseat of the convertible because I guess he felt
like he was too closed in. Every time he got in his car seat he would scream. I
remember it taking me nearly 2 hours to get home on a journey that normally
takes 25 minutes one day because my son cried and screamed the whole way. And
being the new mom that I was, I stopped every few feet to comfort him because I
didn’t want him to feel rejected. I traded the car in shortly after that for
one so he could be higher up and could see out. Smart decision because once he
got in our new car, he never cried
again.
Fast forward 13 years later and I am back to driving a car
lower down. Each day when I got into the car I prayed that I would not hit it
or make a fool out of myself because I didn’t have the viewpoint I was used to
having from my perch in the family cars.
Yesterday morning something really interesting happened
while I was driving into work. I suddenly realised that I was not nervous. That
I did not feel like I was sitting on the ground. That I actually liked the feel
of the car when it accelerates with little to no effort. That I like the way it
handles corners.
I felt for the first time that though my vantage point had
changed, I was now seeing things I didn’t before because I was too high up to
see them. And I enjoyed how I felt seeing those new things. Forcing me to smile
because I realised that this simple act of driving my car after about three weeks
and feeling comfortable driving was a message from the Universe. Reminding me
of just how adaptable I am. How adaptable we all are. And even more so reminding
me when we let go of the expectations or preconceived notions about how things
are meant to be, we discover that the change was not that bad at all. In fact we
discover it was necessary to help us see things from a different vantage point.
Offering us the opportunity to grow in ways we did not expect.
Reminding me I am more resilient than I think and so are
you.
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