While at a music show last night, a distressed women crossed paths with a group of friends and I.
After calming her down, we gathered that she lost her friend group and was freaking out because it had been over an hour and there were quite literally thousands of people there… which meant poor (read: no) phone reception… constant changes and shuffles in the waves of people… and to make things worse for her, I don’t think she was even five feet tall—so she was surrounded by walls of people at every turn.
What happened next, though, was pretty incredible.
We created a space for her to calm down… where she could feel safe in the sea of strangers… where she could dance a little of the anxiety away…
And quite literally the moment after I finished saying, “Sometimes this is what happens and you have to just lean into the side quest, and just trust that it will all work out…” she looked back over my shoulder and finds her friend group.
And she started sobbing.
And we all started celebrating.
And we all had a sunshine and rainbows universe alignment moment.
…Had she continued on the distressed, anxiety-ridden path she was on, she would’ve continued in the exact opposite direction of where her friends were. Us creating that space for her got her to turn around and realign with a better path.
And as it usually does… the universe delivered a memory, a lesson, and a remarkable moment all wrapped into one.
Sometimes, as hard as it might be, we just have to learn to trust and surrender.