cosmic connections

my life as a scene from a movie

I was standing in the airport in Toronto, waiting to board the flight after a thrilling solo weekend exploring the city. I made eyes with a handsome guy across the boarding area. Wouldn’t it be just like the movies if I sat next to that guy, I thought.

As I boarded the plane, I started to get warm, as I had to physically wear of my snow gear since it wouldn’t fit in my carry on. I was wearing a shirt, sweater, jacket, and second waterproof jacket. As I approached my seat, I saw the handsome man. Holy heck - am I actually sitting next to him? I was.

He stood up as I slid into the window seat with my five layer dip, Michelin woman, balloon size body, and started profusely sweating as I tried to jam by bag under the seat in front of me while simultaneously ripping off my coats.

“Do you need a minute"? he asked me, implying that he would stand up again so I could get myself situated. However red my face was from the heat, it turned to a darker shade of pruning purple.

“I think I’ve got it now,” I said.

We started to make small talk; he was on a long journey to New York but had been re-routed several times due to the snow. He also had an accent and told me he was from England. Could this movie character man get any dreamier?

As we continued talking, I started to relax. We ended up having a lot in common! The plane started to de-ice, but then we ended up sitting on the runway for 2 hours waiting to be cleared for takeoff. He confessed to me that he was divorced, and as the hours rolled by he felt comfortable enough to tell me the details of what happened between them. We also talked about entrepreneurship. He started working for an entrepreneur who was passionate about psilocybin to treat clinical depression and PTSD. At the time, I was focusing on starting my own business and I thought it would also be in the medical field. He assured me you don’t need to be a scientist to start a medical company.

Why was this encounter so important for my psyche? It was my first time meeting a man who was divorced without kids and living a normal life. Here I was, going through exactly what he had gone through, and in my mind I told myself I was too old, it was too late, I wouldn’t be enough. But this guy had a new relationship, a healthy relationship with his ex, he traveled the world, he was part of an experimental culture in the desert - he had a very full life. My brain saw another path. This is sometimes called “expansion” or “seeing to believe”. Your brain can’t literally fathom any alternatives, because you’ve never seen it done before. Meeting new people is essential to growing as a person.

Fast forward 3 years later - I did something I never thought I’d do - I got remarried, I got a new job, and I went to Burning Man! How much can I attribute my going to this event with this chance encounter on the plane? I believe a lot of it! I ended up embodying a lot of this man’s way of life despite only knowing him for a few hours. So what are you waiting for?

*Never again did I book a window seat

**Never again did I speak to this man! He had a girlfriend and I am now happily married :) We parted ways amicably.

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