WWRD?
I just got a call and the woman said, “Is this Divine Inspiration?”
I said, “Sorry?”
“Is this Divine Inspiration?”
No, I said, this is Rachel.
I should have said, Yes!
Yesterday, Tin put a sticker on my index card box – it was a Lego version of Wonder Woman with her Lasso of Truth. He said that she was for me. Indeed, I said, she is my hero and that Lasso of Truth is rocking.
During one of my shedding periods, I contemplated changing in my hero for another. I couldn’t summon the fire in my belly to continue with Wonder Woman as my alter ego. I wanted someone more laid back.
Slowly and surely, I came back to WW though because after all, who doesn’t love a super hero who is one of the physically strongest heroes in the DC Universe and the strongest female heroine of all in the DC Universe? True to my spirit, Wonder Woman has the ability to feel compassion and give love without discrimination.
So often when I ask myself What Would Wonder Woman Do? I have to remember that I’m really asking What Would Rachel Do? Because through the years, we have merged into one. Her powers and my powers coalesce under necessity and whimsy. Wonder Woman was able to further increase her strength, in times of great need, by removing her bracelets, which would temporarily augment her power tenfold, but cause her to go insane in the process.
Been there, done that.
Now about that Divine Inspiration, let me give you some of it for your daily bread:
If you drop “I expect this” from your mental process, and replace it with, “Wow, I’m lucky …” you will change your life.
See how it is that you can have days, even weeks to grieve loss, to feel uninspired, to be depressed and you can pull it all back together because you are resilient, and you can wake one fine morning and it doesn’t seem too cold to get out of bed, too much like ground hog’s day to anticipate the routine, too negative cause you think that nothing awaits that is better than what you already know. It’s like POW BAM SLAM.
You wake up and Wonder Woman has taken over and is in the driver’s seat and she has a cool invisible plane.
