I was so lucky to get the opportunity to go to the Abba Museum when I was in Stockholm recently.
My good friend, Nina-Christina, and I had such fun there.
We laughed, sang, danced, took to the stage, were filmed by an Australian who asked us because we were having such a great time letting go and flinging caution to the wind. All in all, a wonderful experience.
I could see that, during that time, we believed we were teenagers again. We were definitely the extra two members of the group!
Now as adult women, we didn’t fear what others would think of us or doubted our own abilities or even feared what may or may not happen. I know I am certainly not a singer by any means. It didn’t matter one bit. I sang my heart out as I knew the words of the songs. And danced their, and my own routines – quite a sight to be seen, I can assure you.
We were coming from the opinion that we were there to have fun – no more, no less – and fun we had. Also coming from a place of adventure and living life to the full with all the possibilities for singing and dancing to our heart’s content. Our Souls were being fed.
It was so liberating, empowering and exhilarating to come from the place of ‘I Don’t Care’ to what else was happening around us.
It is this willingness to step outside the norm that enables our spirit to stay young.
I would like to say that if you get the opportunity – take the risk and go for it. Keep your sense of humour as on the whole, life is funny when we step back and look at it. We, as human beings, do say and do the funniest things.
So if you ever see a video on YouTube of two women letting themselves experience, express and create their own happiness, it will be us. Or even two women who may be ‘taken away’ as they had moved beyond the Swedish ‘lagom’ – not too much or too little.
Let me know when you gave yourself permission to let go and have pure enjoyment.
