Monday, May 31, 2010

Are you Free Now?

"It was the lowest point in my life. I managed to climb to my knees and I noticed a small piece of paper which had not been there before. ARE YOU FREE NOW? I blinked away the tears. Where was these notes coming from and why were they meant for me?"

It wasn't the first fortune cookie like wrapped note that had been left for me to read.

First, there was the one that had come with my morning paper.

I had asked the delivery guy about that.

I thought there was some type of practical joke.

When he complained that he had no idea what I was talking about, I let it go.

Then, after my wife and daughter had left me, and I had fallen into a spiraling depression, I was waiting in the lobby of my therapist and I reached for a magazine.

There it was again.

ARE YOU FREE NOW?

I knew this.

One thing I was now was mad.

Who was responsible for these annoying notes?

Didn't they know what I had gone through these past wrenching weeks?

Well, maybe that is how I should start.

Write about how all of this began.

How I was blindsided by my lack of vision and foresight.

Funny. Don't you think?

A motivational speaker and writer who writes about the future and then is hit right in the gut by something right out of the present.

Well, this is how my nightmare began for me................

(From the 2011 release of ARE YOU FREE NOW, in the VISUALIZERS series)

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