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Hi, dear human. How are you? I need to share a reflection with you.
- Sometimes - the power of the sea is stronger than what we can bear.
That's how I've been feeling the last few days, and how I'm sure many of you have felt too. Sometimes a wave catches you, drags you, turns you upside down and spits you back on the shore, and you hardly know where you are and what your name is.
It seems to me that this is what happens with emotions, with life, with some seasons. These weeks have been a tsunami. An inner tsunami. At the exact moment it happens to us, we are not clear about what it means. We have no freaking idea why we're having such a hard time.
I hope you have allowed yourself to be tossed around by the waves. I don't know whether this anecdote will be useful to you, but here it goes: one day I was at the beach, and I was feeling full of frustration, so I tried something. When the next wave came, I didn't resist it. I let the wave hit me, and then another, and then another, no stop. Ocean water entered my nose and eyes, I was overwhelmed by the power of the current and the only strength I had left I used it only to catch my breath between the waves. I felt defeated, I felt like life was beating me.
Life is more powerful than you and me. You don't always need to fight it. After giving up and feeling exhausted, I strangely felt a lot better. Calm. Enough. Interesting, isn't it?
I think this summer is about that, about delving deeper into the waves and seeing where they take us. In my case, they have led me to see toxic habits towards myself, accumulated emotions, patterns that I repeat. And because I've experienced how they can affect me negatively, these days I'm watching them intensely (as if I were a third person inside me) and gathering information on how I do it. And I have more clarity than a few days ago.
I deeply trust that I won't drown. I've kept the feeling of salt water in my nose from that day on. If my mission, if my life path wants me tenaciously swimming and fighting, it does me no good to paddle forward against all odds without being aware in my body (the best way of knowing) of the power of the sea.
