Month: July 2017

So, it’s been awhile since I last blogged. 8 months to be exact, according to WordPress. I actually thought it had been longer, so yay! Go me.

At that time in my life, I was trying to attract new brake pads for my car. After re-reading all my posts, what I really should have been trying to attract was a fucking new car. Anyways, apparently that thought hadn’t occurred to me, so brake pads it was.  I am aware that attracting random car parts is not the most exciting way to use LOA (this seems to be a recurring theme thus far), but stay with me.

I was following my usual M.O. of ignoring all my life problems in general when I decided to move back to Seattle (where I grew up) from San Diego to ignore my life problems in a different state.

 

Life had been pretty tough the last couple years, and I thought maybe it would be less tough to be around my close friends of 20 years instead of a city full of acquaintances. Once I made the decision to move, all I had to do was pack up and make the insanely boring and long drive back.

In all the crap that I was dealing with at the time, I had really not been thinking about the brake pads, or the fact that a 21 hour drive with their nonexistence wasn’t really a smart life decision. I don’t really excel at smart life decisions, so there you go. It was only when I was talking to my family about my impending move the next day, when I remembered, and offhandedly mentioned the state of my car. I went on to add that I was sure it would be fine and I would make it back OK.  I had zero extra money and no intention of getting it fixed before then. It had been fine for months, what was another few days??

Of course, my dad freaked out and insisted that I go get them checked, and if the repairs were  within a certain price range, that he would pay for it.  Well, when I begrudgingly went to get it checked out (because, come on, I had enough going on with all the standard moving crap and I could deal with this when I got back to Seattle), the price I was quoted was 4 times the amount my dad was willing to help with. I guess it’s because there was something also wrong with the rotor and not just the brake pads. Whatever, it all just sounded like a foreign language to me anyways.

When I told the guy at the shop that I would have to pass on getting the work done, he looked at me horrified and said that he didn’t even really want me to drive the car home.  Upon finding out I planned to drive it 12,000 miles I thought he might actually lose his shit.  He threatened to withhold my car, so I had to plead my case, telling him I was moving the next day and that I only had one fourth of the money to do the work.

And guess what? He said he would do it for the price I named, and fit me in for their first appointment at 7am so that I could get on the road by 9.  I got everything I asked for, including for the amount I had previously stated in my original request to the Universe.

I had fallen off the LOA wagon and let the crap life had dealt me over the past few months get me down.  The belief in LOA was still there, I just hadn’t been actively using it. LOA apparently believed in me too though, because it was still working on my request. A request that I had pushed aside and forgotten about. Now, I’m sure that if I had followed the “rules” of LOA more diligently, I would have attracted it faster.  But that’s not the point.

I still attracted it. Which proves that your life can be a hot mess, but as long as you make a clear and specific statement and believe, you don’t necessarily need to be impossibly happy. Or even happy at all. All the LOA books say, ask, believe, receive as the rules but then they somehow make you think that you need to go around all day singing show tunes and declaring how much you love every single object you come into contact with.  No thanks. That’s not me, and will never be.

 

 

So this is proof, for all you people out there that are like me, who might have read ‘The Secret’ or other Law of Attraction books, and tried really hard to be extra happy for a day (or if you are really like me, an hour) and then gave up because maintaining that level of happy optimism is fucking impossible.

Now, I should say that you cannot be negative towards what you are trying to attract, or think negatively about it because it will always be unobtainable that way. I’m just saying, you can have a crap day (or 8 months), or feel sad, or be sarcastic and annoyed with life and still use Law of Attraction. You don’t need to be on crack happy all day every day like all the books say.

LOA will come through.  Even if it’s something as stupid as brake pads.