Today is a day for launching! I am so excited to finally kick this series off! As some of the contributors below know, it's been since last year that I approached them to participate in the first panel, thank you so much gals for your patience with me! Heaps of Love & Gratitude to all of you for sharing your awesome stories!
So, what is Seven Souls One Musing? Seven Souls One Musing is a new interview series that I hope to run every week or every other week here on KOM. I will be asking 5 or 6 creative personalities (sometimes including myself) plus 1 or 2 random Twitter or Facebook followers to reflect on 1 theme (be sure to watch for my random call-outs to be involved!) I hope to cover an array of topics throughout the year. Most of the questions that I will be asking are coming from my eCourse, Be Gentle, Be Love - 30 Days of Cultivating Your Virtues with Creativity, which I am on the verge of launching! Wooo! It's been a labor of love & learning, I'm really excited to release it out into the universe. If you want to get in on the prelaunch specials & goodness, be sure to sign up for my Newsletter! Okay, without further ado, I asked these Seven Lovelies this:
What is the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
 | Quitting my j-o-b during the bottom of the Great Recession, cranking up my entrepreneurial volume to maximum capacity, and taking an impromptu trip to the north shore of Oahu -- all on April's Fools Day! (No joke). |
 | When I started at the University of Toronto, I was an English major, likely headed towards teaching. During orientation, my boyfriend pointed out an audition sign for the theatre program and said, “Hey, you might like that.” I thought I just might, so I walked right in and signed up. It changed my life forever. |
 | I was hanging out with friends back home in Melbourne, at around 2am, when someone jokingly suggested that we should drive to Sydney. Something in me just thought ‘YES!’ and right that moment, I knew we had to do it. So, the three of us drove to another friend’s house, kidnapped her while she was still in her pajamas, and we drove all night. We watched the sunrise somewhere in the outback, ate lunch near the Opera House, made some amazing memories, shared a lot of laughs, and then drove all the way home again the next day. That road trip created a close bond between our little group. We even call ourselves ‘The Sydney Four’ - because we’re cool like that. What’s even cooler is that that one spontaneous journey sparked the same sense of adventure that now sees me living in China and creating my own path in life. It started as a joke between friends at 2am, but I look back on it as one of the best things I’ve ever done. |
 | Booking a helicopter tour for my Hawaiian honeymoon. I knew I hated small planes and had a heights thing, and yet...I was gonna be in Hawaii! And there were gonna be volcanos to see! And there'd be super regrets if I let my inner chicken win! So I booked it and let my knees shake for 3 months, waiting for my honeymoon and that exciting/dreadful day. Of course, the lead-up was scarier than the ride itself, and it was one of the most amazeballs experiences ever. Screw you, inner chicken! |
 | When the vaguest possibility of a job opportunity came up in Copenhagen, I made a collage as a “first step” in our discernment process. Twenty minutes later the collage was done and the decision was made. We ended up living abroad for three years and traveling with our kids to eight different countries! The process of getting there took over a year, but the decision to make a big change was known in a heartbeat. |
 | Moving to Brighton with my first grown-up love, having been only once for a daytrip. In 1994 we lived in a rented flat in the red-light district of a not-very-picturesque Yorkshire town, and while visiting his grandparents down south we took a train to the coast. Brighton station exits onto a wide road that leads down to the beach. It smelled like summer and there were people everywhere - even the pavements seemed to buzz with promise. I remember just knowing that I needed to be able to stay in that city. I said, ‘shall we move here?’ and he said yes and a few weeks later we did. I’ve relocated a couple of times since then, and with more research than a single day trip, but these moves never quite worked out. I keep going back to Brighton, and later this year I will return for good. I didn’t stay with the boy from Yorkshire, but I’ll always remember him for that impulsive decision that found me my true home. |
 | I have done many spontaneous things that lit a fire within, then the flame quickly burn out. The following one, however, allowed me to learn a life lesson. One afternoon my coworker wanted a Mrs. Fields brownie cookie, so I agreed to a short walk with her in downtown Chicago. On our way there, we had a conversation about trust. And that’s when I proposed and asked her to allow me to walk her back to the office, while I hold on to her arm and give her walking instructions with her eyes shut. At the end of our journey, she said it was pretty scary but yay for us, that we did it. I then realized how powerful our relationships become when we are able to truly let ourselves be, in the presence of another. Thank you, my friend, for sharing that journey with me. |
So now, we are turning the question on you:
What is the most spontaneous thing you've ever done?
Leave your answers in the comments! We can't wait to read them!
xox
8 comments:
While living in Santiago de Chile, I went through a difficult period where I felt very insecure, especially when approaching strangers. Yet on Easter Sunday I went for a walk in the park, saw a foreign looking girl sitting on a bench and let my curiosity take over my fears: I spontaneously went up to talk to her.
We sat down for about two hours and shared stories of our lives. I was a student doing field research for my master's thesis, she was on a Christian trainee program. We saw each other a couple of more times over the next few weeks, before she went home (she's from Denmark, I'm from the Netherlands).
Looking back, approaching a stranger that day changed my life. She introduced me to the church she was going to and while I wasn't looking for God, I was open to the stories of my new friends and listened. I converted to Christianity a few months later. It was the start of a new era.
I was 23 years old and broke up with my steady (financially comfortable, older, responsible, crazy about me) boyfriend because I happened to run into a guy I dated for two weeks in high school who asked for my number.
That was 17 years ago. He called me 3 weeks later, we were engaged in 3 months and we will celebrate our 16th wedding anniversary in June. Best spontaneous decision that I ever made!!!
Starting my first blog, Constant Cravings. I knew nothing about blogging or being a blogger. I was a trend researcher with too many awesome finds that didn't work for my employer. I signed up with blogspot and just started. That spontaneous decision put me on the amazing path I'm loving and living now.
I would have to say going back to school for art classes. I lost my husband in July 2010.2 months ago I came across s website offering classes with out think I hit join . I am 53 and began an amazing journey with my art. Currently taking 6 classes !!
Spontaneous...
I'd have to say, I have yet to live a "low key" lifestyle.
But, my most recent up off a cliff, spontaneous, spread my wings & fly stunt,
would have to be... not returning to my job after winter break 2010-2011, as an art teacher. As passionate as I was about teaching art, I also wanted to explore more avenues, grow as an artist, and engage in networking. This has been one of the most exciting experiences yet! I am learning new things everyday, exploring endless possibilities, and reaching out of my comfort-zone and loving it!!
A few years ago I left my very stable GOOD PAYING job to work on call 24 hrs a day 5 days a week in the funeral industry to basically pick up bodies and deliver them to various mortuaries. It was an industry that I was always curious about and I made my decision at a moments notice and just went for it.
It turned out that it wasn't the best decision for me and I have since left that industry but I don't regret taking the chance to try it out. I learned a lot from the entire experience.
My middle name is spontaneous. I go for random-exciting-daring-risky-once in a life time opportunities that so far have always been worth it. How can I chose just one? The following are my favorite top three...and the decision/results took pace in a 24 hour period. Auditioned for Vagina Monologues-GOT A LEAD PART! Sold my tropical island home in Mexico-BOUGHT A BED & BREAKFAST IN TEXAS! Joined Team in Training for Lukemia-CROSSED THE FINISH LINE IN 8 HOURS, 13 MINUTES...I WALKED 26.2 MILES. I love the way my spontaneity benefits others.
oh wow, this is all so good.... and i'm loving the comment sharing below... nothing very spontaneous is coming to me... but this has made me think!
have to say... LOVE the new LOOK...
congrats!!
xxo, Kim
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