11/07/2025
The Long Ride 🚲
Dream 💭
I’m riding my bike on my way to school — it’s a long ride, but I manage. I’m actually enjoying it, gliding up and down sidewalks, dodging cars, stopping at a gas station to say hi to a coworker. There’s a sense of independence, a bit of adventure.
When I reach the high school, the principal greets me — except it’s my old manager. He smiles and says I’m too pretty to stand in one line and moves me to another — the line for the bike rack. I hand him my bike and wander off, eventually finding a couch to rest on.
I take my camera off my neck, set down my backpack, and just as I get comfortable, I overhear a woman on the phone. Her tone shifts — gentle, familiar — and I realize she’s talking to my daughters. Then I hear his voice. My ex.
I speak up, and she says, “That’s funny, I’ve never heard about you.”
I answer calmly, “I’m his ex-wife. Those are my kids.”
In that moment, I just knew — he never mentioned me because he’s ashamed of how far I’ve come, of how beautiful my life has become without him. After that, I decide I don’t want to ride my bike home. I text my wife and ask her to come pick me up.
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Message 🕊️
The bike represents the journey I’ve been pedaling through alone — the hard work, the balance, the independence. School often symbolizes learning, growth, and spiritual lessons — the kind that come from experience, not books. Riding there on my own shows how far I’ve come on my personal path, learning through life itself.
My camera hanging around my neck is my awareness — the way I observe my own story unfolding. I’m no longer lost in the motion; I’m witnessing it, capturing the truth of who I am. Setting it down when I rest shows that I’m finally allowing myself to be — to live, not just record.
Hearing my ex and my daughters reminds me of the life I once lived and the identity I’ve since outgrown. The part where he never mentioned me reflects something deeper — that my healing, my peace, my happiness — became something that didn’t need validation or recognition. It simply exists.
And then, my wife — the one who always comes to pick me up. In the dream before this, I literally asked her to come get me. And just as I finished writing this one, she texted me — saying she would always come pick me up.
That’s no coincidence — that’s divine alignment.
It’s spirit showing me that love has evolved from something I had to chase to something that shows up. From trying to make someone see my worth to being with someone who already does.
Sometimes the journey teaches us to pedal alone —
so when the right person arrives,
we know what it means to be carried home.
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