Planes on Fire

Last night I was sitting outside, enjoying the evening, when I saw what looked to be a plane on fire traveling across the sky. I live close to an airport so I see planes all the time, but this one was definitely different. I could see the red flames burning. All I could think was that I was going to hear a news report that a plane had crashed near me.

Two minutes later I saw the same thing. Thinking maybe it was circling trying to land, I watched it travel across the sky. At that moment my neighbor came outside. I immediately told him to look at the sky and he said it looked like a floating lantern. A moment later we saw a second one. I felt so silly! It was most likely just someone honoring another life by putting a flame in the sky, and I’m all thinking it’s an airplane about to go down.

Our brains are taught to perceive new things as things we have already seen… Like the many planes that fly across my immediate sky daily, we initially see what we know. And sometimes it takes a different perspective to make us see it correctly.

That’s why I stopped dating a few months ago. I was beginning to perceive all things as what I have seen, especially in men. I always seemed to find red flags in relationships. Partly because I had my Heisman up, and partly because the men I had chosen were not worthy of the challenge. Hence, my brain was beginning to see planes on fire. So, I decided to take a break and seek out a different perspective. I’m taking some ‘me’ time again.

I’m not making any promises on how long it will last, because we all know I love to date. But I do like it here, under the stars, sipping on a glass of wine, able to be at peace. Not having to entertain, just chilling. My days are filled with work and my evenings with friends and the moon.

Maybe it’s my perspective, but I sure do love my nights alone with my moon…

I hope you will also make a little time with the stars and moon soon. Time to find some peace amidst all of this world’s planes on fire. Time to put a floating lantern back in your life’s sky. Time to remind yourself that you are worth the time.

You won’t regret it. I know I don’t.