Women's Empowerment Stories ...

Reflections on Wholeness
~ Bobute, mE

Suppose you stumbled on a brand new perspective for healing …

Suppose you stumbled on …

your identical twin? She is ragged, dirty, homeless, sitting alongside the street where you live. Maybe in front of the place where you live. Think about how you would react seeing yourself this way. What would your first thoughts be? That immediate reaction? "What the heck!" You do a double take, maybe rub your eyes, almost drive into a tree trying to park in your driveway.

Possibly you would keep going, around the block to check and see if you saw her at all. Now what if she was gone when you came back by? "My G-d, I need a vacation, bad!"

You feel better about pulling into your own drive so you do. Dazed,a bit confused, you open the car door only to find her sitting on the steps!

Trapped with yourself, who is not really you, only someone who looks exactly like you. Get back in the car. Find the nearest bar, have a couple of stiff drinks? It has been a crazy week anyway. Anything is possible.

How about approaching her, finding out who she is, where she came from? Scary, yes. Still there is a reason for this happening. You will never know unless you attempt to find answers.

Even if she disappeared right that second could you forget? Let it go, never be bothered by it again? I think not any more than I could. I would want to know all about her from the beginning.

Take her in would be my first reaction. Help her, which means trusting her in my space, my home, my life. If I would bring a stray puppy home, which I have many times, why not another human being who looks exactly like myself?

Possibly fear would come into play, which would be natural. Would that mean I am afraid of facing myself? The real mE, the one I have searched so hard to find. Now would be my chance unless I had been lying to myself all along.

Just how bad do I want to know myself? Enough to trust another one to help mE find the answers I seek? Lots to think about, especially when you stumble across yourself unexpected on this road of life.

~ Bobute, mE