Cinderella 3.0: Merry, Marry Eternity
About Courage, Death & 2022
You know Cinderella. Of course you do.
With some fairy magic, she overcomes the adversity of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, who treat her as their maid, so she can meet and dance with a very handsome prince, then hurry home before the clock strikes midnight and her carriage becomes a pumpkin again.
I see so many of us wanting to reverse the Cinderella story;
Show up the new year’s eve as our maid versions, wanting to magically turn into our better versions (princes & princesses) after midnight in 2022!
Voila!
Healthier. Happier. More responsible. More social. More abundant. Whatever your version- living the dream life.
You focus on the next, the new, the vision.
Holding onto your glass shoes.
I wonder, what happens to our 2021 version when the clock ticks after midnight on December 31st?
Does she die? Does she disappear?
Why did she wait for a year to turn into her best?
What are your little resistances, emotionally, psychologically, inwardly, feeling / projecting the pain of change, and the anxiety involved in that change…?
Who is your wicked stepmother, or sisters that you have been blaming? Is it a human, or an entity? Covid, the economy, the spouse or your childhood story?
Your stories are valid to stay where you are. But if you are ready to change, you need to become aware. It is a decision of how you no longer want to be.
You are afraid to let go of your excuses, and blame. You are afraid to take full responsibility of your story. When your mind is frightened, you are not capable of observing or living.
How do you know that the pumpkin could be the golden carriage, the rats be the drivers & the white horses and you be the one deserving to join the ball and fall in love?
How do you jump from where you are to what you can be?
That level of awareness takes a certain amount of mental effort and courage. Although it is still probably less effort than resisting change and justifying why you don’t change, but you have to get ready- there is no fairy to come and change you, without your call and readiness for it.
Readiness to let go and to die to a version of yourself.
No longer attaching to this is me and this is my life. But daring to look inwards to see who are you and what is your life really? Going beyond a static mental image, a constant struggle, effort, comfort, pain, loneliness, sorrow - that's your life.
You are afraid to let that go.
Your heart is beating. And still…
You jump into unknown.
Now.
Our death is our wedding with eternity
If you dare to face who you really are, without all those static mental images about you and your life- then you accept your power, understand life, in the present tense, without any entrapment of fear. No fear at all - fear of psychological security, fear of death, fear of not becoming something, fear of losing, gaining.
Some of us knew that state of being centuries ago…Like Jelaluddin Rumi (Mevlana).
Rumi inspires us to dare to feel the amount of love, unconditionally, and die every minute to free ourselves from the illusion of separation, with his poems.
Sheb-i Arus word means “Wedding Night”. Rumi counted the day of death as “revel to God”, that is, “Reunion with the Creator” (Wedding Day-Night).
“Our death is our wedding with eternity.” Rumi
What if you can let go of fear? What if you give yourself the permission to be the worthiest?
What if you marry yourself?
Now.
The root of 'freedom' is ‘great love’
This life, and death, like the glass shoe- as your unique creation, have always been fitting you, perfectly and evolving with you? What if there is no way you can be unworthy of it?
The art of living is not only to find out how to live our daily life, but also to find out what the significance of death, is while living. Dying to our versions that no longer serve us to become new.
“You are incarnating every day as fresh, not you, a new thing is incarnating every day afresh. And in that there is great beauty. That is creation. Not merely painting a picture, building a house and architecture, but living with this death and life. And that gives you - in that there is tremendous freedom. And freedom implies also, the root meaning of that word 'freedom' is also love. Living, the art of living and the art of dying, together. That brings about great love. And love has its own intelligence.” Krishnamurti
Find your security and certainty inwardly.
Free yourself. Be simple and honest.
Crash the glass shoe to run wild on grass, then fall down and be the grass.
Inspire new fairytales, whispering your truth and then the ultimate truth; the silence.
Here is the question of the week: What are you leaving behind in 2021? What do you dare to die of yourself to marry with eternity?
❤️ Merry Marry New You
With Love, Joy & Courage,
Canay Atalay
✨ The Heroines
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