#NerdsUnite: The Ramblings of a Raconteuse (Universal Balance)
<editorsnote> Nerds, meet my buddy Helenna. We met on twitter not too long ao, and she's totes mcgotes one rad chiquita banana with a flare for all things flair! That's right, Helenna here is what we call an artsy fartsy nerd. She's a poet, into all things dramatic arts, and she's going to come on board to write each week about her love of said drama. Well not like actual drama drama, like some cat fight shit - but you get the idea. I only have one thing left to say ... HIT IT HELENNA!!! </editorsnote>
#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @Helslevy
So, this has been an emotional week, a week that proved to me that the universe likes to balance itself out with a equal amount of positive and negative, good and bad, right and wrong.
I often feel this weird emotion when things are going really really well; that I’m looking for something to go wrong, for the negative to creep in. That’s more of a habit really I’ve had my whole life that I’ve been working on breaking. I’m doing pretty well at it. For me, it’s more that I used to worry (actually I’d spend a lot of time worrying) about something going wrong when things were going very very well in my life. I’ve since learned to enjoy all of the good things to their fullest, and instead of looking for a negative event to occur, I simply observe them as part of the balance when they do happen.
This week started out being exhilarating. Barry and I went to our first Comic Con ever and holy crap, I was in absolute HEAVEN. Comic Con truly feels like home, a place for all of the passionate geeky wonderful people of this world to come together and feel a sense of belonging and camaraderie. My heart was so full and warm with happiness the entire time we were there. Seeing Wookies walking around brought tears to my eyes. It was amazing and wonderful and overwhelmingly awesome.
I can not thank my fellow Geek Girls Create ladies enough for including me as a sister on this geeky journey. Thank you Kristen Nedopak, Stephanie Thorpe, Leah Cevoli, and Cricket Lee. Also a big thank you to the amazing Alan Sizzler Kistler and Patty J Robinson, both of whom, along with the geek girls, helped guide me through my first Comic Con. Barry and I are already planning next year as a full week excursion where I’ll even be cosplaying and fingers crossed, perhaps on a panel as well ;)
I left San Diego after two days with tears in my eyes and longing for 2013 to come even sooner. Although…we’re starting to save money now cuz holy nuts does that event make you bleed out money LOL!
After that we flew up to my nephew’s wedding in Seattle. It was a lovely wedding and it was so wonderful to see my Filipino family.
Now, these awesome events came at the same time that one of my best friends is in the hospital after having a bone marrow transplant due to the Leukemia that she has been fighting for the past few months, another good friend of mine’s father is very ill with lung cancer causing her to fly back east for an unknown period of time to be with her family, another friend’s grandmother passed away, and there was a death in my husband’s family.
Yah, a lot of different emotions circulating through me right now. So many different energies in the air, and I always find that as an artist, Barry and I are much more tuned in to those energies. Or, in a way, I often feel like I’m easily affected by them and it feels like that movie “Fallen” where the energy somehow passes along to us in weird ways. For example, we had a very bad customer service experience with the Alaska rep and then a very strange run in with a Sea-Tac Airport TSA agent who was incredibly rude to Barry and made some seriously racist remarks. So, so strange. Oh, plus the weird solar flare activity starting up this weekend… But when I started to look at all of the difficult things happening at the same time as these amazing things, it all makes sense.
The universe seems to like to balance itself, keep itself in harmony, and I’ve learned to see it all as two sides of the same coin. Both are important, both have weight, and both are the currency of life.
#xoxo hels
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