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CALM ON
Thursday July 11, 2019
Relief, when we stop banging our head against walls …
Yes, that’s just a punch line. A good one, perhaps overused.
But apropos metaphor for beating ourselves up or feel anxiety – then sweet relief euphoria flowing with joy and adrenaline mixture when trouble stops, when problem self-solves, when threats to our calm existence simply evaporate. Stupid? Yes, I know it is, but we feel it just the same.
If you can imagine a calm pond, and if that ponds had a brain and eyes, the pond feeling so anxious when it sees someone on the shore about to throw a rock to completely disturb that glassy calm …
Which is worse, the splash and the ripples, or the tension of not knowing if that rock will be thrown, when and how damaging it will be to the tranquility we enjoy having that glass-like surface of calm water atop our pond?
Calm-on …
That’s not real. Yet it is. Whether it is conflict, collision or cash – there are issues in life and how we manage them which can neither be denied nor avoided.
If we must deal with these calm shattering disruptions, maybe we could fear less and steel ourselves against the angst by reminding ourselves how many times we’ve managed tough things before – but is that any way to manage our lives?
Of course it is.
Under calmest surfaces, there is always plenty going on down below …
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