How ironic that the last post i posted was me being offended that Niva thought i wouldnt go to heaven and now my next post is about... my spiritual awakening lol. so its been a few weeks now since it happened and im still trying to wrap my head around it all.
basically on the 6th of feb 2024, niva and i were home alone because we were about to fly out to australia on the weekend so sundae was at dad's and EJ was getting his bank, ird & job sorted at niva's parents house in mangere. before I really go into it, I had basically been on a very long downward spiral for the past few months. was so sad and agitated and severely anxious for no apparent reason at all. the past few months, I had been really yearning to explore my spirituality and reconnect with God. it was one of my goals for 2024 when i made my list after new years. i just didnt know where to start. i even thought about doing some hard drugs to force me to open my mind up to it. it was like the more depressed and anxious i felt, the more intense or even urgent my desire to find God became. but it wa weird because the way i am - skeptical and realistic - felt like the biggest hurdle in my journey. i was too focused on my life in a surface kind of way. i cant explain it but at the time i didnt even realise thats how i was. i used to think i was extremely self-aware and emotionally intelligent and thats why i was so anxious and had mood swings all the time. anyways, my down buzz became so hard to handle i started taking days off work and started feeling like niva and i werent really connecting at all. and all these things just made my anxiety so much worse. i was crying over scenarios i was making up in my head. and the way my brain works, its hard to STOP thinking so much. it was like a never ending cycle because thats all i knew my whole life. i began to think something was seriously wrong.
so that night, me and niva were having a bucky before we ate dinner and i finally opened up to him about how i was feeling and how i thought i was severely mentally ill and needed help. i told him i think i have ADHD or an anxiety disorder and i need to get on medication because how im feeling cannot be normal. his reaction, despite how supportive he was trying to be, kind of made me feel very invalidated. he basically told me im fine and im not fucked up. i expected him to say that though because i know hes never felt and been through what ive been through. it just made me feel sadder because he always pushed me to talk to him and open up but whenver i did tell him how i truly felt, it never felt like he actually heard me, you know? we sorta dropped it there and went to eat. then as we were eating i remember talking about my parents because they were driving me nuts at the time. then i asked niva what was his first impression of my parents - in the sense that it might've been weird for him to meet my parents who pretty much cant stand each other. his response is what set me spiralling. he said "i felt sorry for you". he went on to explain a little more, i dont remember much though because i had already started crying. and from there i just couldnt stop. at first i was shocked because i just had never had fathomed a reality where niva saw the flaws i saw in my parents IMMEDIATELY. it was like the whole time i thought it was in my head but he knew immediately and i just never even thought that was a possibility. i knew i had a hard life but i thought everyone was like that. in fact, i thought my life was extra normal than others because other people have gone through way worse than i have. and to find out the person who knows me best in this whole world could see it as soon as he met my parents - mindblowing.
while i was crying i closed my eyes and could see my life flashing before my eyes, but this time it wasnt like the memories i had always seen in my head. this time i was seeing it from niva's perspective, or just an outsider perspective in general. and it was like all that trauma and sadness i thought was only in my head (because what do i have to be sad about when my life is much better than others who had it so much worse?) was REAL. it was real and all those feelings i had about these things in my life were valid. it was ME telling myself that its all in my head. the flashbacks and feelings got more and more intense within the span of like 2 minutes and i started freaking out. i remember getting up and hugging niva and the feeling of his embrace sent me over the edge. i had a vision of me being hugged and surrounded by people dressed in white, and the light around us was so so bright. thats when i started freaking out. looking back on it now, i feel like i was touched by God spiritually. i had never felt something like that before so i truly thought i was losing my mind. all i remember was crying hysterically as the revelation came to me. i felt like my whole being had changed because how could i have never seen myself and my life that way?? i did see it but i didnt truly believe my recollection of events was true or real. i didnt think the feelings i had in my head about people and events in my life was real, and would gaslight myself into thinking i made it all up. i thought i made all my suffering up in my own head to feel sorry for myself. but at that moment, when God touched my soul, he showed me. he showed me how it was all real, all my suffering was REAL and not for nothing. every flashback showed me how strong i really was because i made it through the hard times that i didnt even want to admit to myself were hard times. He showed me that i AM one of his strongest soldiers. i fought those battles by myself because i didnt even know God was there. i didnt even have the emotional and spiritual capacity to allow God to come into my life and help me. i was so lost and God showed me why. he showed me that my revelation was destined for that exact moment because everything i went through in my life was a challenge and a lesson from him.
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I felt a feeling of relief now that i knew everything happened for a reason, but at the same time was so extremely overwhelmed. i wish i revelled in that feeling more but i tried so hard to immediately find sense in the moment that i couldnt let myself feel all the feelings i felt. i probably looked like a madwoman to niva because i just remember grabbing his arms and pleading with him like "i see it now! i see it! God sent you to me!! I need to go to loku and pray and be like you" i cant really remember exactly what i was saying but all i know is God gave me clarity to see that he sent Niva to me for that exact moment because it would have never happened without him. that revelation saved our relationship because now i know for sure that we were made for each other. all the worries and doubts i had about him literally disappeared in that moment because i know he could feel it too and that God's plan was bigger than any little issue we had in our relationship in the past.
still to this day its hard to explain that moment and how i felt internally, despite the fact ive relived the memory a million times over in my head. all i remember was feeling extremely scared, overwhelmed and a part of me thinking i really have gone crazy. the revelation itself was such a unique and overwhelming feeling. being someone who always thought i was highly emotionally intelligent and self-aware, to be confronted with the realisation that your mindset your whole entire life has been wrong feels like your entire world is literally crashing down. i really cant explain the feeling, i guess you would need to have a revelation like this yourself. for a long time afterwards too i was too scared to even call it a revelation or refer to the moment as God showing me something. i called it a 'realisation' for a while. what made it so overwhelming at the time was the fact that the 'realisation' itself was SO fucking obvious. like how could i never had realised or known that the struggles in my life was real?? i cant even explain that too coz the realisation wasnt really that my struggles were real, it was that everything ive been through in my life wasnt just a punishment for my own shortcomings or mistakes. very hard to explain unless you have a fucked up mentality like i did for 25 years. looking back on it now, its no wonder i was so depressed and anxious for no reason. because how can i heal from my trauma when i refuse to even acknowledge that my trauma is real and not just a figment of my imagination. i was so hellbent on NOT having a victim mentality that i didn't even recognise the true possibility of me ever being a victim. this is so hard to explain because my brain doesnt really create lineal thoughts and explanations. my brain kind of works like a video compilation where all the videos are about the same topic or whatever, but theyre combined in a way that makes no real sense because its all somewhat unrelated. very hard to explain lol. anyways, it took me ages to calm down after that because i didnt want to confront my trauma at all. i was scared to even acknowledge the moment as anything other than a mental breakdown. but i really did change mentally, emotionally and spiritually that night. i had never ever thought of myself as a strong person because i had always been so down and depressed and anxious. until God showed me that night that i AM strong. in that moment i was as strong as i had ever been in my whole life.
the next day i was still feeling weird and different. my perspective had been knocked completely upside down and i couldnt tell if it was a good or bad way. everyone i saw at work looked different now. it was like i could really SEE them for the very first time. exactly like how i felt like i was only really SEEING myself for the first time ever the night before. i was on the verge of tears all morning because flashbacks of the night before kept coming to me. i could feel God in everything and everywhere around me. it was freaking me the fuck out! imagine never knowing if God is there because you've never felt him and then suddenly being unable to STOP feeling him. i remember going out for my morning smoko alone and when i got outside i could feel him everywhere. in the sun and sky and the wind and the birds. so i prayed to him because that was what niva was telling me to do - pray on it. for the first time in my life i prayed and i felt like God was really there listening. i told him i can feel it, i can feel him. i asked if he can help me get through the day without crying because i dont want to cry at work. immediately, i look up and theres a smile on my face and i suddenly dont feel like crying anymore! i thought to myself wow, you've there the whole time God?? but i couldnt even be mad at him because he showed me why i didnt feel him earlier. he waited for that moment the night before because it was meant to be that way. how easy that realisation healed so much trauma and anxiety i didnt realise i had been carrying with me my whole life. for the rest of that day and the few days after, i felt like my connection with God was at its strongest.
now, the feeling is a lot less overwhelming but my perspective of life and people and God is so different. now, i know that my God loves me and i dont need others to tell me or show me how to navigate his love and the life he's prepared for me. i am more secure than ever in who i am and what my purpose here on earth is, even though i actually have no idea at all. its been so good for me now that i have faith and truly believe that God has a plan and everything will work in his timing. my perspective of life is so fresh even though i still have so much left of my spiritual journey to uncover. i could honestly write a whole book on this event and how its affected me but im still navigating and making sense out of those thoughts. all i can do is keep moving forward because now i know how God works. now i know that God is not some 3rd party that drops miracles at your feet when you ask for it. no, he works THROUGH us. he is the hope and the courage and the dreams we all have to be the best we can be. i had never felt connected to God before because i never even allowed myself to open my heart to receive his love and guidance. but now i have and i haven't stopped seeing him work through myself and the ones around me since.
theres so much i have to say about this but i'll leave it at that for now.











