Great lifestyle change spurred by a strong "vision" (and not the falling-down, drooling kind)

[MorningGlow]

This is so touching!

Tome is where the heart is: How one woman travelled 5,000 miles to find her happy ever after

Imagine doodling on a pad a picture of how you’d like your life to look, and your daydream coming true. That’s exactly what happened to Jessica Fox when she committed her vision of her ideal life to paper. Living in Los Angeles, Jessica was focused on her career. At 25, she had started her own production company, her first film was being shown on the film-festival circuit and she was a consultant media director for Nasa. She loved her job. ‘It was career, career, career with me,’ she says. ‘Romantically, I hadn’t found anyone who intrigued me. I would have rather had a man hand me his screenplay than his phone number.’

But something in Jessica was crying out for a change. She’d long held a fantasy of working in a second-hand bookshop by the sea in Scotland. Why Scotland? ‘I don’t know,’ says Jessica. ‘I just knew it had to be there. It felt right.’ She drew pictures of herself bundled up in scarves, in a bookshop, then cycling down to a windswept beach with a packed lunch, ‘and contemplating the universe. I thought it might just be an idea for another screenplay, but the vision was so strong.’

When the opportunity to take an extended holiday came up two and a half years ago, she decided to follow her dream. ‘I wanted my life to be as adventurous as the movies I was writing,’ she says. She Googled ‘used bookshop, Scotland’ and Wigtown appeared. Wigtown, in Dumfries and Galloway, is Scotland’s National Book Town, with 11 bookshops near the sea. ‘I felt as though I’d struck gold,’ Jessica recalls. One, the largest second-hand bookshop in Scotland, intrigued her. So she e-mailed The Book Shop, trying to sound as normal as possible. ‘I told the owner it was my dream to holiday at a bookshop by the sea, and I attached a picture of myself waving.’ A few hours later, there was a one-sentence reply: ‘Tell me about yourself.’ Jessica decided the owner must be a ‘sweet 80-year-old grandfather, typing with one finger’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1353218/Jessica-Fox-LA-film-producer-travelled-5k-miles-happy-after.html#ixzz1DBoHw0IX

[OneGrassRoot]

1. Oh my goodness...

This gives me angelbumps, for several reasons.

Don't get agitated...'cause this is a "typical OGR thing" ;)...but what she did is exactly how I envision Wishadoodles (yes, nearly all creations that have come to me in dream state or whatnot involve "wish" in one way or another...lol. I don't ask for it, it just comes!).

Doodling, writing, drawing what we choose to manifest...that's Wishadoodles! It's as though reading this reinforced these off-shoot projects that have been gestating for years, waiting to be birthed.

Secondly, Scotland, bookshops, romance....oh my!!!! I sooooooooo want to go to Scotland. It's calling to me.

Godspeed to their journey!

Thanks for sharing, MG. :hug:

[MorningGlow]

2. Oh you silly

:hug: There is no such thing as a "typical OGR thing"! :P :hug:

Hee I love that--"wishadoodles". :thumbsup:

What I got from this woman's story is the difference between everyday daydreams that, when pressed, we'd have to admit that we don't really want, and those overwhelming visions of something we just KNOW has to happen in our lives. I commend her for recognizing that her dream of Scotland was the latter, and actually doing something about it. That takes volumes of courage! :wow:

I've never felt a pull toward Scotland, but I feel so very strongly about England it's ridiculous. Always have, even when I was a little kid. I often wonder, not if, but WHEN I'll be able to go there again. England never stops calling me. Sigh.

[japple]

3. Great story! I sent it to all of my girlfriends. Thanks for the early valentine.

n/t

[Delphinus]

4. Yes,

that's what it is - thanks for helping me understand what I was feeling. :hug: