Joys and Sorrows
I was so inspired by a recent post from the @newhappyco. Stephanie shared that joy, when shared, grows and sorrow, when shared, becomes less heavy.
In the spirit of that, here is some of my joy:
✨ Collecting beautiful things for the place my boyfriend and I are moving into next month. We've been together for over 5 years and this is the first home we'll share and I can't wait to create this space with him.
✨ Hearing about all the creative things people have been doing. I love humans so much, we all have potential to do so much good and create such beautiful things.
✨ The flurry of phone calls, video meetings, and groupchat activity this week. I've noticed more of this lately and I've seen a similar desire in myself to reach out and connect. You can still feel the love your people have for you virtually 🤗
Here is some of my sorrow:
🌊 Living in a pandemic is scary and new and so many kinds of hard. On my walk the other day I saw young kids on a playground all playing joyfully while wearing masks and something about that reality just felt so depressingly dystopian. I cried because I hate that they have to experience this and they're so resilient and they were still just having so much fun.
🌊 Someone I love very much is figuring out some stressful health stuff, and some days it makes me very anxious. My heart goes out to anyone dealing with health concerns during a pandemic.
🌊 The usual cocktail of intergenerational trauma, collective grief, and carrying pain and fear (mine and ours), sometimes for longer than I need to. Being a human can feel heavy sometimes.
Thank you for witnessing and being part of this self-care community. I'm posting this today because I have the capacity:
🌊✨I'm not a mental health professional, just a person who cares. If you need to share some joy or sorrow, I want to hear from you.✨🌊
Or, consider this an invitation/sign: who can you share with? It doesn't always come naturally for me to share, (hi Capricorn Moon) but I know that when I do I feel infinitely better.
Life is full of all kinds of joy and suffering, and often all at once - I believe we're meant to experience it together.