Cinderella’s shoe...

As we approach our last day in Heidelberg, many questions passed my mind.

knowing that I will be leaving  a city that captured my heart , and I will be living a solo experience next  week in Essen, after getting used to sing the song of life with a chorus of my fellow music therapy students with whom I shared laughter, curiosity, adventures, stories and interests during our stay Germany…

this process makes me always wonder, what is the lesson beyond farewells?
Why are we destined to go through this vicious circle in our lives…Curiosity, motivation, experience, attachment and love, But just at the moment when we begin to have a habit…

Just in that moment when we overcome our challenges, accept our differences, get into the rhythm of where we are, what we do, with whom we live… The clock tic, Toc, and life says: ‘’it is time to leave Cinderella… it’s time to leave!’’

But  remains the question…WHY ?? I don’t assume by any means that I have an answer for it , I am just speaking out loud  my heart’s voice  !

Why do life give us repeatedly this kind of experiences?  Why do life help us create bonds then shares to break them !!
And it tend to do that repeatedly.. so it is not a single event !

May be there is a lesson, beyond that ! Life keeps texting this message. Until we get it right , which may seem to be  confusing ! Because, it invites you to bond and  engage with new experiences, places and persons and then contemplate for you to be detached from all of that !… So… what’s really the message….Bond or dis-bond!!??
Weird! However, may be the message of life to us lies in the combination of both….so it is more a cycle and a process than a phase ….It is more Terminate to engage and engage to terminate…
It’s hard to take a part from the other… Life & Death a twin regardless their differences…you must deal with both of them ... This could be reflected in our relation-ship with our  clients and how we tend to end the sessions of therapy with them.

 Better to take the concept of termination in our practice to a cycle more than a phase….Termination, with our clients should hold both messages….Bond to dis-bond… and dis- bond to bond and so on.

It reminds me of this old game when you sit in a circle and start to whisper a short message to the ears of your neighbour and wait for the same message to get back to you , holding a lot of variation  acquired along the circle from every player.

Hence , termination, should always be a message of hope, and trust  that whenever we dis-bond we do that to bond again and gain new experiences, a message of trust that somehow the circle will join again, holding tones of memories , laughters and variations..

Though, I still want to lose my shoe in Heidelberg… and that the city will find me again somehow…someday…
Mina.