The Gathering
- Jun 12, 2016
- 2 min read
Welcome back to The Gathering. There was no Gathering last weekend, and I apologize, I had written two pieces actually that I was considering for last week, but none of it felt like it was what I needed to say. But here we are again.... Happy Sunday and thank you for reading all about it.
I remember being little and wanting to grow up so badly. I just simply could not wait to be the woman of a household. As adults, the idea that we’re as far along as we are is often, sometimes daily, shocking enough, to consider the idea to magically jump forward, as we had imagined when we were children, doesn’t always have the same appeal. But then there are times, when perhaps we don’t want to wish away whole decades, but rather certain chapters, maybe a day or a week or a month.
Just blow passed it. Be further than we are. The problem we encounter as adults in this thinking is that we know that time does inevitably pass. So in the midst of just wanting to wish something away we are inundated with the realities and worries of what may actually happen if we let time slip by.
In fact I have seen the extreme end in someone I know. When you get stuck really badly, and since we can’t actually speed up or move passed any extent of time without actually going through it, nothing happens.
I am constantly finding myself or finding someone coming to me, laughing and saying things like: You can’t make this stuff up, or feeling life is reminiscent of a dark comedy. I think that for most of us, we all can feel like our own drama, our own problems, our own stories, with our own dark night of the soul moments, are the worst anyone’s ever endured and that because our own story is so individual – hardly anyone could really understand. I think we all have brief moments of this, followed by perspective, reality, overcoming, and moving passed things by going through them.
Even on the daily, there are so many moments where we feel as though, if we’re working on something there is a part of us telling us we should be doing something else, like cleaning instead of working, or working instead of watching a movie with the family, or hanging with the family instead of working. But when we do this, we get stuck – and instead nothing happens well.
Hold tight and let’s trust that everything is happening as and when it is supposed to happen this week and let’s be glad that something is happening at all, because otherwise we’re not living at all.
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