Blink Once for Yes

Blink Once for Yes

I woke up this morning tired. Nothing new, but last night there were a lot of noises, some new, keeping me up. Different sounding animal noises? Idk, but sounds I am not familiar with. I could hear different sounding footsteps in our backyard, but I dared not look to see what it was. Nope. No thank you.

So, as I start most my mornings that I don’t sleep well, doing basic tasks like going through emails, social media, things that don’t require my full attention.

And this morning I remembered I had an email I was curious about. Not too many of those these days. Not like this.

I received a reply from my favorite artist. Famous artist.

Now let me explain something first.

This artist has held my hand, in a sense, since the day I came across his music. Cracked my soul open with a force that forever changed me.
And guided me through some turbulent times. Showed me and told me exactly what I needed to hear at the precise moments I needed his words.

And what’s funny… I have never met this person or spoken to him. Really couldn’t tell you too much about him. The basics is about as much as I know.

But my soul feels different. 

I based my business off one of his songs.

“I don’t know.”

That has been my saying for as long as I can remember, but really… I didn’t know. I don't know.
But I did.

I did what I needed to to survive and be successful. Couldn’t tell you how at the time, and at times I still question how I did.

But the main point is that I did.

We do what we need to survive.

It’s the place I feel we get stuck, though. The hamster wheel of running really hard and fast to burnout, and then getting a carrot to start you running again when you are discouraged.

I ran this wheel and grabbed bigger carrots until I realized it was the same.

Same shit, just dressed different ways.

He helped me see this. In a roundabout way.

His words gave me the courage to believe in myself and stop believing the shit people had fed me for years, with whatever intent was in their best interest.

But in this trek they call a journey of self-growth and healing, this artist was there for me on the days I felt like giving up, not just the good times.

Well, recently I signed up for his official fan club and other social media stuff. You know, the basic fan stuff they throw out to sign up for.

But I got this email that made me go, “Hmmm… is this for real?”

Short and sweet, but it was odd.

I sat on it for a week.
Kept thinking, it can’t be real. Someone is playing a joke on me.
I mean, I’ve had “fake accounts” like and send messages before.

But for whatever reason... it made me pause.
I was like, I’m going to respond with how I would actually ask.

So I did.

“Is this for real? Blink once for yes. Twice for no.”

Gave a heartfelt quick thanks message and hit send without much more thought.

And…

He responded.

I still haven’t gotten over the shock of it.

The sense of overwhelm is overwhelming with the amount of emotions that are flooding over.

I won’t wait a week to respond this time. Lol.

This is the universe’s wink wink to me.