Do you remember a moment in your life where everything collided into a defining moment that transformed your life forever?<\/p>\n
Those moments happen all the time, only we don\u2019t always notice them until later on in our life. \u00a0 I was just thinking about all that needed to happen in order for me to be here, typing on my keyboard and \u00a0sharing this story with you:<\/p>\n
My friend Sofia was an extraordinary woman. \u00a0At 23 years old, she was a contemporary dancer, capoerist(brasilian martial-art\/dance), yogi, meditator, chi kung practicioner and overall an amazingly disciplined person. \u00a0She was one of my role models.<\/p>\n
We were very close and we were always sharing our philosophies on life with each other and having a good time. In 2008, she was going to an internship of dancing in Belgium and then to a Master Class of Capoeira in Brasil. \u00a0We parted ways, hoping to see each other when her adventure would bring her home after 2 years.<\/p>\n
I was at home, in early february of 2009, and I received a phone call: Her friend announced to me that she died in her sleep at 6:40 that morning. I was totally shocked\u2026.<\/p>\n
A few days later, I was sitting in my room and I held a private ceremony to tell her goodbye. I wanted her death to mean something, so I told her: \u201cYou have inspired me to be and give more in my life. \u00a0I want to embody your greatest gift to the world: discipline. I want to honour your gift in my life as a testamonial of our relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back then I was working as a cabinet maker in a wood shop. The place was noisy, dusty, and I was working for 11$\/hour. \u00a0My co-workers were old dudes who\u2019s eyes told me that I didn\u2019t want to end up like them 30 years from now; surrounded by noise and air pollution and machines that could chop off my hand in an instant. \u00a0I had a moment of clarity, which I feel I owe to Sophia, when I told myself:<\/p>\n
\u201cFuck this, if I were to die tomorrow morning in my sleep, I could not say to myself that I lived doing what I love and sharing my gifts with the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n So I started contact juggling that very day. \u00a0I devoted 15 minutes a day to this art. \u00a0Fifteen minutes a day turned into hours; up to 5 hours a day of contact juggling. \u00a0I was finally doing something that encouraged my creativity and growth, all it took was a little discipline.<\/p>\n There are some magical moments in our lives where everything shifts. They happen all the time if we pay attention. The craziest thing about this is, that if all of that wouldn\u2019t have happened, \u00a0I would have never met my beloved, Sarah. \u00a0 But that is another story\u2026.<\/p>\n Please, share your stories below this post.<\/p>\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n Renaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Contact Juggling, Fushigi\u00a0and Crazy Stories Do you remember a moment in your life where everything collided into a defining moment that transformed your life forever? Those moments happen all the time, only we don\u2019t always notice them until later on in our life. \u00a0 I was just thinking about all that needed to happen in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,5,8,2,3],"tags":[16,17,18,19],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network","category-laptop-lifestyle","category-make-money-blogging","category-personal-development","category-question-the-status-quo","category-renauds-blog","category-sarah-bee","tag-contact-juggling","tag-crazy-stories","tag-fushigi","tag-renaud-gagne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/teamempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}