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A Moment Like This

I truly feel that when you live totally in the moment, that your life will bring blessings to your future!

What’s in it for the moment? For the last few years I have learned to live my life in the moment. Since then, I have totally changed my life for the best and I have felt blessed in the process. What does it mean to live in the moment? Do we as humans worry too much about our past and future to forget the moment? I tend to think so, because for many years I lived in the past or future. Since then I have changed and life has blessed me.

Why do I believe in this whole thing? Due to the fact that we can’t control our future destinies and our past has already been done, so why live in it? I truly feel that when you live totally in the moment that your life will bring blessings to your future. We can have dreams and goals but that doesn’t mean wish that will happen, just go along for the ride. I live for the ride. Since writing my last article lots of amazing things have happened to me! I truly believe it has to do with living in the moment and having goals.

I attended the Be All Convention here in Chicago in May, and met so many lovely people. Going into the whole situation I didn’t know what to expect. I have never really been too optimistic about things, so I went into the situation with an open mind. Which is how we should all go through life and in that situation it brought me tons of happiness. I met so many people I will remember and have become close friends with forever. The reason I attended the convention was to give my seminar on Inner Beauty. I didn’t think it would be anything of a success since I haven’t given a seminar in many years. I went through it with open eyes, open heart and in the end I had a full room and people wanting to know more! It was a success, having people coming up to me and telling me about how my seminar touched them. How it made them see things out of life a little different. I wasn’t there to lecture them but to open myself and my life to them. I feel that through experience you can offer people advice. I didn’t think that people would want to hear some twenty-seven year old pre-op transsexual tell my life experience or my opinion on things in life. But in the end they did and they asked me to come back next year! Through the convention I met some great people, ran into some old friends and reconnected. The openness that I allowed going into this situation gave me the opportunity to feel the success of life.

While I was there I met an incredible guy. I never thought that going into a trans convention I would meet a future soul mate, but it was like something happened. When we met it was some kind of force that brought us together and we haven’t been apart since. He was there as entertainment and I actually was supposed to leave but something brought me into the situation. Boy was I glad it did! He had no clue I was trans, and I just assumed he was a straight man there for work. I think life gives us things when we’re ready for them and I guess at this time in my life I was totally ready for him. It’s almost like we knew each other in a past life, and maybe we did. I have never felt connected to anyone like this in a very long time. But I do feel like I was touched by magic, considering he was doing magic!

Also, at the convention I ran into an old friend Nikki, who at one time was a guy I briefly dated. We have lost contact since then but I have always wondered what happened to her, I knew she became trans after we dated. When she came up to me and told me who she was it was a moment I will never forget. I saw a light shining through her that I never seen before. She was truly living her life that she was meant to and it didn’t matter how old she was! I was totally honored to be in her presence and to reconnect with one another. I found out that next March she is having her SRS and I offered to go to be by her side as she leaves for that operating room and when she comes out as the woman she wants to be. I never thought I would ever do that for anyone. It just happened; I felt that this was her journey and that I needed to be there for her. She tells me that when I offered that, she felt a burden off her shoulders, that someone she admirers and loves will be there for her. What has happened to me? Life is what has happened! I’m just open to the possibilities!

Last but not least, I went back to Texas in May to record my forthcoming album For, which is to be released late this summer! This has been something I have been wanting to do for a long time, but never thought it would come to life. But it has, thanks to a great producer and my best friend who wrote my album and we have come up with something amazing! The album is fun, but also serious in some aspects. I am real and raw with it. I let people see me as a trans person, and not changing myself for society. My first single Voluptuous Diva is a fun camp dance song, about me being a diva of a size bigger than a size zero! It’s an anthem for women out there who are not conforming to society’s image of what’s beautiful! Other songs on the album include the album’s title track For which is about how ten years ago I wasn’t the person I am now, and how I’m thankful for all the things that have gotten me here! So with an album of fun and full of statements I hope to bring trans people to the forefront with my music! I can’t wait to release it to the world!!!

Through life and experience I have realized that living in the moment will bring you a blessed life. I hope through this little example of blessings in my life will help you find your blessings! Life is wonderful; just accept it and let it take you for the moment!

To hear my latest single Voluptuous Diva visit www.myspace.com/kennidimonroemusic and if you ever want to ask questions or need advice, please email me!