Damn, I don’t believe it, I can’t imagine this, God how can this be happening to me, oh no!!!!!
These like the other exclamations arrive when the proverbial hits the fan and the feeling of bewilderment overcomes one’s mind. The sense of the most dreaded occurring and one watches it unfold with you at the centre of the unimaginable.
When nightfall appears and daylight seems a mirage, butterflies in the stomach becoming spiders and other creepy crawlies.
Phew!
All journeys of life have them; arguably without them one hasn’t lived for in this life we will have challenges – great and small, short and long, shallow and deep.
Being there can be very daunting but also as the saying goes “when there is life there is hope”. Hope for daylight, for a change, to make amends, to start afresh, to love again, to build and to live.
Indeed irrespective of the dimensions presented, it’s our composition that really matters; our character, level of resilience and support network that determine the impact felt and recovery we achieve.
I often spell out my motto for Wellness as “Build Resilience not Resistance”. This for me puts paid to the Why me questions for starters, determines to make lemonade and top it with a new masterpiece for tomorrow. Rome was not built in a day comes to mind so the crucial word is Build! For it may take a moment, day, months or even years.
As today people go around with their perceptions of the scary, ghostly or morbid, make a point in your life to jettison the Nightmares, shock and horrors and move on without their chains.
Let the past stay firmly in the past, live productively in the present then plan and hope for a better future.