Some connections arrive quietly and change us forever. Through loving and losing Rini, and learning to live with the wild, untamed spirit of River, I discovered that love doesn’t always look the way we expect it to. Sometimes it asks us to slow down. Sometimes it asks us to let go. And sometimes it teaches us how to live fully awake, right in the middle of the chaos.

Once I liberated myself from the constraints of a predetermined pursuit, I freed up energy and brain space for interests I otherwise wouldn’t have considered. Since I wasn’t busy chasing one single-minded goal, I was able to listen to my intuition and notice what actually resonated with me.