This is going to be quite a year.
At my house, we’ll have some challenges we already know about. Ah, but those are the ones you can chew like cud, aren’t they? If it’s not going to surprise you, then you’ve got time and energy to bring your best self to it. You can realize when it’s not going to respond to brute mental force, and relegate it to a background process. You can take the little epiphanies when and where they come, all the while burnishing your preparation (and therefore, ultimately, your reaction).
No, it’s the horseshit that T-bones you at 3:45 on a Tuesday afternoon that really takes it out of you. You can make decisions about how you live your life that will help reduce those events, but you can’t eliminate them entirely. So if the unanticipated tragedies are going to occur, it behooves us to figure out how to be our very best selves when they hit. And the major connection that may finally be hitting home for me is that caring for our bodies properly has a lot to do with caring for our minds and spirits properly.
I’ve read stuff like that periodically for decades, but managed never to internalize it. I’m feeling it now. And it’s a powerful positive feedback loop indeed. It’s trading in cliffs peaks and ravines valleys for a pleasant promenade at the water’s edge.
I may even end up a morning person.
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