Straight up. Latin women are passionate.
Have you heard of the term “super taster”? A super taster is a person that has more taste buds than the average person and so they taste everything at a hyper level. Well, latin women are super feelers. We feel everything at a hyper level. When we’re sad our hearts want to explode, when we’re happy our hearts want to explode. The ever scary emotion of LOVE, yup you guessed it, our hearts want to explode with love! You get the picture, we’re feeling everything at a hyper level and our hearts are always on the verge of exploding. Some people would call that being dramatic, over-reacting… I call it passion.
This last fall I embarked on a life-changing journey of discovering my true self. Stepping back a bit, I’d already been working on this for several years with the help of a life coach. In those years I’d made great progress. I realized my biggest fear is to be vulnerable in all facets of my life. Identifying that you struggle with vulnerability is one thing and actually working on letting your walls down and being vulnerable is something entirely different. So last November, with the encouragement of my life coach, I took a leap of faith and took on the challenge of working on being more vulnerable and ultimately learning, accepting and realizing my authentic self and not who I think society wants me to be. For the last 8 months I’ve taken part in a “soul-centered” course in spiritual psychology. With only two months left in the course, I am much more vulnerable than I’ve ever been, and as much as I acknowledge myself and prize myself for going there it’s still scary as shit and it’s a lot to ask of a latina. For example, I came across a Rumi quote that tells about “sitting in your patience” and letting what you need come to you. For the last two weeks I have to constantly remind myself to “sit in my patience” and that’s like asking me to give up my love of shoes or more accurately it’s like asking me to make it rain. It’s not impossible, no, but shit is hard AF I’ve realized. I want to bulldoze through things and get to the end result now, I don’t want to sit patiently waiting for things to happen on their own! Sidetone: Last night I went shoe shopping and I found a fabulous pair of wedge sandals on sale, my heart almost exploded!
I would really enjoy to sit here at my dining room table typing away on my laptop and recounting all the crazy shit that this crazy latina has been experiencing during this crazy journey of this course in spiritual psychology with my latina twist on it… but I can’t at this time. I have to get ready, pack an outfit, load up the chihs and the mini schnauzer, and head over to my family’s house because there’s a party tonight at Casa Xol where there will be lots of drama and exploding hearts for sure. I will be breaking in the great pair of wedge sandals I picked up last night!
Latina goal: Sit in my own patience. I hope to eventually be able to do that without even thinking about it much, but rather by just being.
Hasta pronto!
Moni X