Good times are coming back.

And I am writing this from a winter climate (it is winter in my country until August) though, expecting for the noon temperature to warm me up a little. But, you could either say or write it from the polar cold of the North Pole or from the rainy London, the “good times back” would still come back if you ask them to.

Have you ever heard of Calimero?

Not the one from the Italian and Japanese cartoon actually (which is a black chick and who’s story is rather different), but the French cartoon Calimero, a baby swan raised by error in the midst of yellow ducklings. As a baby swan, Calimero was black, thus different from his brothers who would mock him regularly just like their other friends and father did. Considered as the lame duck of his family and village, he would fiercely stick to his dreams of being able to fly up high like these beautiful big white birds that he saw in the sky. His dreams, his unsuccessful attempts to fly and his difference put him through a certain period of humiliation, of injustice and tears, until he decided with his best friend Pilepoil, to leave this village where he obviously couldn’t find his place.

As and when of his tribulations and new adventures, he finally grew up, followed a group of swan migrating in the south, looked more and more like a swan (which he actually was), and finally became the Prince of the Swan group. And one day at the end of the migration period, he decided to come back to his old village in order to show his mother (who was the only one that deeply loved and trusted him) how able he was to fly high in the sky. When he arrived in the village, everybody, his brothers, friends, teacher, father …  now had a different way of looking at him. Not only was he a handsome swan Prince, but he also was as courageous hero since he actually also saved his whole village from the poacher. 

The “Good times are back” period.

The "good times are back" period brings this same feeling-home appeasement that you feel when looking at the sunset.

The passage that hit me the most was when Calimero left his village with his best friend, neither knowing what direction to take nor how to survive in unknown land, yet, not wondering at all about it.  From the moment he left his village, life suddenly tasted freer and he deeply appreciated it like a joyful carefree baby swan, singing, discovering things and feeling released from tears and feeling able.

This was the “Good Times Are Coming Back” period.

And this is also how it works in the real life.

 “Good Times Are Coming Back” period looks pretty much like spring time, holidays or just period of carefree mind, like if all the possibilities were opened to you, accessible and right at your fingertips. It brings this feeling of appeasement and of "feeling home".

This “Be happy” mindset IS the clearance.  

We often think of this carefree mindset as of an “ideal” state, which is wrong. It is NOT an ideal state but the NATURAL one. And this natural state is the one that generates this energy that actually make us achieve something and reach our goals. This is the kind of state you are in when you take big resolutions for your life that are meant to be realized.

So the job here does not consist in learning to do difficult things. It consists in pushing oneself to get in this particular state of well-being and to use the energy that it generates to formulate clearly our life goals. Because this is when all your beliefs (especially the ones related to fear and to the feeling guiltiness) are stunned and all the elements in your body, mind and soul are joining their hands and acting in synergy to take you to where you wish to be.

This will not happen physically and in a second or in a single try.

Although it happens that few tries are sufficient for some lucky people strong enough in their minds and beliefs. But, it generally happens progressively and the means to build your life dream will come through the shape of dreams (I really suggest to give it more importance since this is the way the other part of the brain tries to communicate with you through symbols) possibilities, coincidences, opportunities… and all of these little things that we actually see only when our mind is free from negative charges and when it is opened to the change you called for.

Think of what you did best.

There are a hundred ways to put oneself in this state of positive energy, meditation, prayers, Qi Qong, Tai Chi, helping others... But you could also do it in the simplest way, like taking a moment to be alone in a quiet or pleasant place for a while, listening to a soft music or not listening to any music at all. You could then take a long deep breath, inhale and exhale deeply, as deeply as possible for some seconds and while closing your eyes, you could think of all these things that you have achieved and succeeded in your life, all of these little victories over life and over adversity which you are proud of, and which may feed your mind if you allow it to.

You ARE the Swan! Take off and reach the highest!

Remember that if you  did it then, you can do it again today, with or without charges, with or without possibilities, with or without support, with or without experience, with or without anything; charges , experience, support, possibilities are just details in this context. What is not a detail is the way you need to feel at that moment, being deeply connected to these little victories, to your perspectives and connected to how capable you actually are.  Let the emotions rise, let the tears flow if they will, do not hold them back, do not restrain what should be at the moment a pure natural process, let your face smile as you see and feel your dreams and perspectives as if they were at your fingertips and as if you were living them at the moment. You could chase any potential feeling of fear, anger or guilt with a loud “Get away!“ scream.

And you could allow yourself at the moment to be totally disconnected from material or mind constraints and to keep connected to nothing else but to this vision and feeling. You could simply call back the energy of these “good times” and feel it happening in this part of your belly. You could hear it rising in your lungs, you could make it turn into a gratefulness thank to God or to the Universe for making it happen for real, and you could let your eyes and glance show the world that you are heading to the land of possibility, where this best part of your life is waiting for you. Not only because you deserve it, but because this IS the way it should be. 

Like Calimero, you have evolved by error in a world of ducks (I LOVE ducks though) convincing you that money, working hours, tiring boss, conventionality and mediocrity were a life standard. But you could decide that you ARE a swan!

So learn to fly away from what had always weighed on your shoulders since then, take-off and reach the highest! ©

 Cornélia ANDRIAMASY RABEMANANJARA

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