A few months ago I had what I call a ‘snap me back’ moment. It’s that type of situation where suddenly you are awakened and snapped back to reality when you didn’t even know that you had left.
I’m sure we have all had similar situations at some point in our life, or maybe you have had one in the past 48 hours. It could be a near accident that caused you to open your eyes and pay attention to the road. Maybe there was a traumatic event that shook you to your core, or perhaps you lost your job or ended a relationship. These are the events that allow you to open your eyes and pay attention to what is really happening right here and right now.
We have a tendency to go through the motions of life without paying attention to how we feel, do we still want this, and if this situation is really working for us, until BOOM! One day we get hit in the face and the wind knocked out of us.
When my situation occurred, I was in a tail spin and spent the entire rest of the day wondering how this could happen and of course questioning the proverbial “why me?” and “why now?”
As it turns out, everything worked out just fine in my situation, and at the end of the day as I reflected on the events that occurred, I changed my focus from why is this happening to me, to instead ask why is this happening for me?
I am a strong believer in the Universe giving us the signs that we need and that we must pay attention regularly, because it’s when we don’t that we end up in these situations where the Universe is essentially yelling at us to get us to listen.
This event was a big wake up call and reminder to recognize that nothing and no one is working against me, and to instead look at the message that is being delivered.
What happened that day was my ‘snap me back’ moment. It’s when we are faced with a stressful situation. A close call. The kind where you say to yourself “Wow that could have been so much worse. Someone was definitely on my side.”
It’s then that I know to stop to recognize what the sign is that I was supposed to see. It’s a time to step up and wake up to what is really going on around me and to stop taking things for granted. Stop taking life for granted.
Pay attention!
And that’s just what I did. I took notice of the importance of the valuable lesson that the Universe was giving me. It was like an elastic band just snapped me right back to reality. Right back to where I was supposed to be. I gave up the victim stance, and picked up the strength. After all, if I were meant to be the victim in this situation, it wouldn’t have been a close call.
So if you are going through one of these right now, and even if you’re not, I encourage you to step back and pay attention to this moment right here and right now and ask yourself:
- What is the message they are trying to give?
- What signs are you given that you aren’t paying attention to?
- How can you look at your close call or your stumbles as a wake-up call to pay attention to what is really happening or what you should really be paying attention to?
- What is it going to take for you to really wake up and pay attention? And at what cost?
- How can you take responsibility for your part in this?