A figure in the fire reaches up and points away from herself, redirecting her attention outward instead of looking within for the answer. The clues lay all around, literally falling from the sky and yet she is missing them, well, ignoring them actually. Learning to look within completely is the goal, but she is not there yet.
It’ s important to refine the question to its most simplistic form, to the core issue, to the real issue. Was it really about leaving the marriage or was it about listening to the real discontentment in her heart. Could she have seen that it was about the pain of all the accommodations she had made in the relationship in which she denied herself. Wasn’ t it really about the parts of herself that she chose to ignore for the sake of the relationship. Was it about the inability to stand up for who one truly is as a woman and a human being and ultimately wasn’t it about honoring herself and… even more importantly, honoring her husband for who he was with all his qualities, not in the sense that one had to resign oneself to live with them, but accepting that this is the reality, this isn’ t hers to change or fix or resist, only to choose whether to leave or stay.
