Mom; yes, please and thank you

This time I'll write a story about a brave, young woman.

She was born as a premature baby. She was very small and weak, had extremely big violet eyes. “A premature baby with open eyes, what a surprise” thought the accoucheur.

Her mother Sarah was Jewish, and she was a deeply faithful woman. Sarah had the first encounter with her husband at a Jewish school garden-party. At first sight, she fell in love with him. Of course she didn’t realize that he was not Jewish. Later on, when she discovered this reality; she tried hard to back up from relationship with him but it was too late.

Years later, she accepted that this was about her destiny. She agreed to marry him. Her husband Ralph was a Christian. Thank God he wasn't as conservative as Sarah, so she could follow her own traditions.

Sarah worked as a professional numerology expert. Therefore, she believed that each word including names has energy. According to her knowledge, calling her new born daughter with a name that resonates with her energy field could be supporting her for her entire life. She was sure that a name's energy attracts abundance, health, wellness and even mutual love.

Her husband believing to his wife asked her to find a name for their new born that will bring her deep courage for survival. After some researches in the old spiritual books, she decided to call her baby Atalanté. Ralph liked it. He agreed. This name belonged to the Hunting Goddess. “Only a brave and powerful woman could be a hunter” he thought.

Atalanté lived in an incubator for more than six weeks. Every day she became stronger. When, eventually she was out of the incubator everybody noticed her extremely big violet eyes. They weren't only big but also very deep.

A year later she was walking, talking and eating without help. She was a vegetarian since the beginning. Sarah, in spite of her noticeable efforts could not convince her to try animal food products. Atalanté never accepted to eat cheese, eggs, butter and of course no red or white meat, no chicken or sea food only some natural honey.

When five years old Atalanté began to write and read; and to play the piano. She was able to sing really complicated songs. The experts decided that she was born with absolute pitch, very high musical abilities, and a very rare talent to play all kind of keyboard instruments.

When she was seven years old she began to compose music. Sarah was proud of her daughter. She thought “I did it, this name supports her exactly in a way that I hoped”.

Several years later Atalanté was very famous and well known among the musicians of all over the world. Being brave, powerful, disciplined, beautiful, and successful in school, in music and even in other art pushed her to try harder.

She worked hard, as much as she worked, that much she felt need to work more, more, more and more. Her parents were very happy and proud of their daughter's talents and diligence. No one noticed that Atalante was addicted to work and success.

With time, Atalanté began to smell like sour milk.  She continued to work hard and the smell continued, even became stronger. No one noticed her odor except one of her Chinese friends at the school. Her friend Ju pulled her to a corner and asked to Atalanté in whispered:

“-How many hours per day do you work, your body seems to be in a wood depression. This means your liver can not stand the high energy wasting condition that you live in. It might be poisonous. I know that because my father is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) expert and I study Acupuncture with him. Your body smells like sour milk and this only happens when somebody's liver is very tired or poisoned. I am afraid, if you keep this much workload, you'll get a very tough illness. Please, please, please, do yourself a favor and stop working so hard.”

Atalanté didn't really understand her friend or maybe she didn’t have the courage to face the reality. However, after a while, one night she fainted on the stage.

The doctors examined the nerve crush and they said it happened because of high stress. They also said that this much of hard work collapsed her entire energy. She pretended to be convinced and promised to rest for a while. Actually, deep-inside she knew that this diagnosis was not far from the reality but something was missing in it.

She thought “I fainted not only because of stress and hard work but also because of lack of my mother's love. Since I was born she could not take me as I am. She always looked for a way to push me more and more. In order to give her a reason to be proud of me, I had to ignore my real life and my deep desires. I know, my mother loves me but she loves my success more than my own self.

Atalanté convinced herself that her thought was absolutely correct. “It is time to make decision. I have to choose between my desires and my mother’s ones. Ok, now it is the moment. Here and now, I must have a time-out. I need to be alone.” she thought.

 When she came home, she stood in front of her mother, opened her big, violet eyes and looked directly at her mother’s eyes. After a deep inhale she shouted “hey mom, here I am with my last decision, I quit the music, I quit the school, I quit the other art occupations and projects and I am flying to my ancestors land and that's it”.

Her mother was almost hypnotized with the energy that came from her eyes. She hardly opened her mouth and said:

“-Ok, you're free to go, I'll support you. How long will you stay there?”

“-I don't know, I think it could be for lifetime.”

A month later Sarah received an e-mail from Atalanté:

“-Hi mom, I am now living in a kibbutz, close to Haifa. I am working voluntarily in a fishing pool. The life here is very joyful. There is a TCM doctor who takes care of me. He heals me with Acupuncture Needles, Tibetan Massage, and Wind Cups. So, this disgusting sour milk odor is quitting my body day by day. I really am happy and I discover the power of slow and easy work. Love you. Your Daughter Atalanté.”

Three years later, when Atalanté came back home, Sarah almost could not recognize her own daughter. She had a very dark bronzed skin color, extremely muscled shoulders and arms, strengthen legs and noticeable shinning sparks in her violet eyes. She hugged her mother and said:

“-Here I am, feeling happy to be here with you. I returned because I now know that here is home. Anyway, I have to tell you that I'll stay here, in this house, with you and daddy, only if you'll take me as I am. I don't want to be a musician but I want to take the music as a lifetime hobby. I don't want to be strong and brave but I want to collect different experiences. I don't feel like trying to make you happy in the way that I did years ago but I want to give you my unconditional pure life.

Mom; yes, please and thank you. One hundred percent YES to all that you ARE. Please let me BE as I AM and thank you for accepting all this.”