Comments on: On the Other Side http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/ food, travel, yoga, and living with intention Fri, 18 May 2012 22:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: doniree http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6441 doniree Sun, 02 May 2010 09:40:23 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6441 I LOVE your ocean analogy! And I've started to realize, the farther 'on the other side' I get, we go through situations in our lives to prepare us for something bigger, something that we might not have appreciated or known how to handle if it weren't for previous experience. It's funny, it makes me actually grateful for challenges because the life I'm living now is richer because of the things I've gone through to get to where I'm at. And yes, I do believe we've gone through a similar journey in this past year :) I LOVE your ocean analogy! And I've started to realize, the farther 'on the other side' I get, we go through situations in our lives to prepare us for something bigger, something that we might not have appreciated or known how to handle if it weren't for previous experience. It's funny, it makes me actually grateful for challenges because the life I'm living now is richer because of the things I've gone through to get to where I'm at. And yes, I do believe we've gone through a similar journey in this past year :)

]]> By: doniree http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6440 doniree Sun, 02 May 2010 09:35:49 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6440 I want to know more! I want to know more!

]]> By: Alex http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6439 Alex Sat, 01 May 2010 17:09:12 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6439 Sometimes I think your in my head. Get OUT, Doni. ;) Really though... I think we both embarked on similar journeys around the same time. When I look at the ocean, I have a similar gut reaction that life is SO big and I have made it SO far. The ocean reminds me of all the possibility I have in my life, but to conquer the ocean I had to learn to swim, to keep my head above water and to know how to ask for help if I started drowning. I broke ties with people who were weighing me down and who would not throw me a life jacket if I needed it. I strengthened ties with the people who had always been there, teaching me how to swim or showing me new ways to swim altogether. I just posted on JR's blog a Carl Jung quote: "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." I think this is 100% true for any interaction. Negative or positive or abusive or healthy or whatever shape the relationship took, it changed us. It made us grow. We just have to be sure to pay attention and do what we need to do to move forward. Love ya! <3 .-= Alex´s last blog ..<a href="http://twitter.com/pixie658/statuses/13210562805" rel="nofollow">pixie658: @renidemus there are a ton of really great non-vegan gluten-free pizza doughs tho. honey helps boost the yeast & I think it's the secret. :)</a> =-. Sometimes I think your in my head. Get OUT, Doni. ;)

Really though…

I think we both embarked on similar journeys around the same time. When I look at the ocean, I have a similar gut reaction that life is SO big and I have made it SO far. The ocean reminds me of all the possibility I have in my life, but to conquer the ocean I had to learn to swim, to keep my head above water and to know how to ask for help if I started drowning. I broke ties with people who were weighing me down and who would not throw me a life jacket if I needed it. I strengthened ties with the people who had always been there, teaching me how to swim or showing me new ways to swim altogether.

I just posted on JR's blog a Carl Jung quote: "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." I think this is 100% true for any interaction. Negative or positive or abusive or healthy or whatever shape the relationship took, it changed us. It made us grow. We just have to be sure to pay attention and do what we need to do to move forward.

Love ya! <3
.-= Alex´s last blog ..pixie658: @renidemus there are a ton of really great non-vegan gluten-free pizza doughs tho. honey helps boost the yeast & I think it's the secret. :) =-.

]]> By: floreta http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6438 floreta Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:43:50 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6438 In Buddhism school, I'm learning this is called "affinity" and "synchronicity". Cheers to many more affinities! In Buddhism school, I'm learning this is called "affinity" and "synchronicity". Cheers to many more affinities!

]]> By: doniree http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6437 doniree Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:37:24 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6437 Know what else is cool?! I even wore that Urban/HandsIn dress today! Also? You win for longest commentluv link EVER with that blog post title. Know what else is cool?! I even wore that Urban/HandsIn dress today! Also? You win for longest commentluv link EVER with that blog post title.

]]> By: nicole antoinette http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6436 nicole antoinette Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:04:11 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6436 Yes! Our one year friend-iversary! .-= nicole antoinette´s last blog ..<a href="http://nicoleisbetter.com/my-parents-chinese-hats-and-weather-that-was-bad-when-it-should-have-been-good-thereby-turning-our-pool-vacation-into-a-rain-vacation-and-making-me-wildly-unhappy-but-maybe-less-likely-to-get-skin-c" rel="nofollow">my parents, chinese hats, and weather that was bad when it should have been good thereby turning our pool vacation into a rain vacation and making me wildly unhappy but maybe less likely to get skin cancer. also, tattoos.</a> =-. Yes! Our one year friend-iversary!
.-= nicole antoinette´s last blog ..my parents, chinese hats, and weather that was bad when it should have been good thereby turning our pool vacation into a rain vacation and making me wildly unhappy but maybe less likely to get skin cancer. also, tattoos. =-.

]]> By: doniree http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6435 doniree Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:20:53 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6435 Thanks, love! Likewise :) Thanks, love! Likewise :)

]]> By: doniree http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6434 doniree Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:20:40 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6434 I still would wager that this last year is significance and you'll see why when you step a little further away from it :) And next year? IS your year to shine. I still would wager that this last year is significance and you'll see why when you step a little further away from it :) And next year? IS your year to shine.

]]> By: Amy --- Just A Titch http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6433 Amy --- Just A Titch Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:19:10 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6433 I love those times when you can look back and realize you've come really far. I'm so happy for you...it's been fun watching you blossom from this perspective. Here's to another year! Can't wait to see WHERE you'll be :) I love those times when you can look back and realize you've come really far. I'm so happy for you…it's been fun watching you blossom from this perspective. Here's to another year! Can't wait to see WHERE you'll be :)

]]> By: Manderz http://doniree.com/2010/04/27/on-the-other-side/#comment-6432 Manderz Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:07:43 +0000 http://doniree.com/?p=2631#comment-6432 I look back at the past year, and the thing that sticks out is how I lived most of it on auto-pilot. "I" didn't take control of my own life, I basically just watched another year pass me by. But I never clued in until this post. Guess this means this next year is going to be my year to shine. :-) I look back at the past year, and the thing that sticks out is how I lived most of it on auto-pilot. "I" didn't take control of my own life, I basically just watched another year pass me by. But I never clued in until this post.

Guess this means this next year is going to be my year to shine. :-)

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