Grief
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It’s thinking that because you don’t see it, feel it, or it doesn’t immediately impact you, that action is optional. Part of privilege is the option to decide when to care or take action, and doing so only when it’s convenient or affects you.
Simplicity is about making time. We only get a certain amount of hours, it's not limitless as we sometimes feel it is. If you didn’t perceive your time to be limitless would you do things differently
Accepting where you’re at is tender, but that softening brings you back to the moment and into your body. When we want something to be different than it is we miss out on our lives. Wanting uncomfortable feelings to pass, or waiting for a moment in the future, is wishing your life away.
Sometimes what gets treated as self care is actually just basic needs; food, rest, sleep, water, play, love. When basic needs get set aside for the pursuit of achieving a goal or external mission, break down starts to happen.
I always expect healing to be a straight trajectory. But it isn't. Taking two steps forward then one back still means you’re taking steps, even if they’re one at a time or sideways. Although it kind of sucks, deep healing is probably essential if we genuinely want to change, to be better for ourselves, everyone else, and the planet.
Perhaps
this is the first time
you’ve had to make sense
of loss.
Maybe,
you are
unfamiliar
with grief.