Whatever happens, happens for the best as long as you’re positive.
You are walking down this road. Something good or bad can happen. If something bad happens, something good or bad can happen as a result. Whatever happens, happens for the best if you are positive.
Being positive often leads to the road less traveled. In this picture, that road led to the atoll Gili Meno. Paradise! I contemplated positive energy on its soft sandy shores when I met Cary and Kim. A Texas couple living in Bali, they decided to vacation on this nearby island. The day before New Years, Kim said: “Pick a page at random in my New-Age book.” I flipped to page 63, reading: “Today joy will come into your life.”
That night, New Year’s Eve, the three of us dined in a small outdoor Palm-tree adorned restaurant not more that twenty yards from the shores of the turquoise-colored Indian Ocean. We feasted on roasted fish, rice, prawns, veggies, chicken in hot sauce, and gadu gado. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a stunning woman in a white body-length beach dress climbed elegantly up three wooden stairs and walked directly to our table. In her quaint Australian accent, she said: “Hi, I’m Joy!”
We talked and laughed for hours, a warm breeze tickling our faces. When the clock struck twelve we left the restaurant arm-in-arm, singing: “To love somebody…”
New Year’s day we met for mushroom omelets and a walk around the Atoll. Psychedelic omelets! One each for Cary and I and one for the ladies to split.
The Scene. Everywhere crystallized molecules of soft beach, sunshine, air, water. The distant peak of Bali’s volcano shrouded in a molecular mist, “Wow!” Turning in slow motion into shimmering molecules of sand, palm trees and people’s movements. Another “Wow!” A trek sharing deep intimacy with people recently met. 4 of us, then pairs, then switched pairs, then 4 of us again.
Joy reached an epiphany: “…That’s where relationships falter; they can’t get beyond the hurtful. Someone usually shuts down about a real issue, and the other doesn’t want to bring it up again for fear of bloody confrontation. Issues linger. I need to trust!”
Cary and Kim decided to cast aside fear of the modern world and have children. “I guess when you get right down to it, families are about supporting each other and raising well-adjusted kids.”
4 people trekked around an atoll under the influence, opening a door to dazzling dimensions of nature’s smells, sounds, and tastes.
Achieving intimacy, seeing their auras, making decisions, being honest.
The women taught me to tie a sarong (picture).
One of the best day of our lives…
Whatever happens happens for the best if you are positive.
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