Musings on a chosen theme of the week!
Usually these are a single-word or short phrase that I have chosen to examine in more detail.
Is it possible that, by sectioning off parts of your life (facets of your personality?) that you aren’t being true to yourself? Could it be the case that when you behave differently around your children compared to when you’re at work you lack integrity?
Last week I started in on the topic of Truth and Reconciliation by examining the truth. Now it’s time for more thoughts on reconciliation than you ever cared to read! In order to reach reconciliation, we must first have a common truth, a common history. After all, what is history but the story we tell to explain our present? The dead don’t care what we say.
If you’ve been here before, you know that I like musing on basic subjects: fear, isolation, motivation, fear again. For my sanity, I’m going to break my thoughts on Truth and Reconciliation down in a similar way. The logical place to start then is with truth.
In the interest of Being Festive, let’s talk about the space of fear! Because is there a better way to celebrate holidays than by writing essays? I think not. I wrote about fear last Halloween from the self-care angle. This year I’ll examine it from my Make Space angle. If you haven’t already, you can catch up here with Part 1: Clutter and Part 2: Listening!
The most important part of making space is listening. No matter how you are trying to make space, you first have to learn to listen. You have to listen to yourself, and you have to listen to the other people in the space.
So… it’s been a rough go of it lately. And it doesn’t look like things are going to get much better any time soon. Where can you make space in your life today?
It’s taken a while for my brain to be able to stop screaming into the void and be able to string together coherent sentences on a page. I wanted to be able to post some comforting-type essay on, I don’t know, the resilience of humanity, but I’ll have to leave that to other people for now. Because right now, I’m angry, I’m frustrated, and I need to rant.
So, one really cool thing about living in the times that we do is that we have the whole world at our fingertips. Smartphones give us near-instant access to any person we want to talk to, any fact we want to know, or any game we want to play. We have found the vaccine for boredom.
No, not the M. Night Shyamalan movie. Or the People. I’m thinking about the concept of a village. It’s the one that people mean when they use the phrase, “It takes a village to raise a child.” I touched on a facet of this concept a while back in my post on isolation, but I still have some thoughts left.
How do you find your motivation? What keeps you coming back to the practice room, or for that matter back to the gym or class or work? What gets you out of bed in the morning? Why do you keep doing anything?