Sometimes the universe sends us messages, and unless we are listening, we may miss them. I've had the Universe send me messages, trying to lead me to the book, 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". I just wasn't listening, and perhaps wasn't ready to hear and accept at the time.
That same message was sent to me again, recently but this time through a classmate. It was so odd as to how it happened too. The classmate is someone, I did not talk to so much, but somehow we ended up spending quality time one fateful evening after class. The first time I've done that with a classmate! It just turned out I had time to kill, and so did he, and so we decided to chill at a Starbucks. That was weird in itself.
After some great conversation, I think he learned a lot more about me, than I did about him! I was interested to learn more about some course he was taking at Transformational Arts. He showed me a little about what he's learned about behaviour by asking me questions, and how my answer, a 'either or' answer, determined some detail about how I think/act. It was interesting.
Somewhere during this time, he mentioned that I should really read the book, 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari". That book completely changed his life, from a life of deep anger, enough to possibly causing death, to a complete turn around. It came just in the nick of time as well! He has long left that lifestyle of gangs/voilence, since that book came to home, and changed it to finishing school and having a career working with small children! I am leaving out the details but it was a very compelling story!
The part that is the real kicker for me, is after our meeting, he was never seen in class again. The instructor even tried to contact him to see what happened, but he never responded. The course wasn't even half way through at the time either!
When I decided to share this story with a family member, he told me that he had asked me to read that book before.... more than once! I do not recall that at all. I do not even remember ever hearing about the book before my classmate had told me about it. I have grown a lot over the past year, and become more accepting and open to the universe, and maybe thats why this message has finally come to me.
I'm going to start reading The Monk who sold his Ferrari tonight. Now, actually.
