Life Persists
♤Logic says, "I'm cold now, let's go home," but ♡Emotion says, "just one more picture."
Photo by: Thrive With Creativity
Life Persists
Logic says, "I'm cold now, let's go home" but Emotion says, "just one more picture."
Winter 2026 taught me about balance through the obvious lack of it.
I needed my obstacles to be so blatantly obvious this time because I was truly ready for the changes that needed to be made.
In the real world, this looked like the desire to get "just one more";
“just one more” picture;
“just one more" minute;
“just one more” piece;
"just one more" this or that, resulting in me spending hours at my desk, forgetting I have a body and leading me straight into a sedentary lifestyle full of postural muscle imbalances and overwhelm.
While my career took a fantastic turn for the better, the dishes and laundry were piling up. At what point did I go too far? The point at which I fell into negligence… and yet, I know it could not have happened any other way. This inexperienced version of me knew no better way to handle the complexities that followed a tick bite — the initial catalyst to losing my active lifestyle as I knew it.
The pattern I had to break is simple in theory. The way I was acting before my downfall was unsuccessful, unsustainable, and ultimately unfulfilling. I'd put my energy into things that were often unwise, following my passions on whims without a clear plan, and in that rabbit hole, I often gave no mind to structure at all. My perception became filled with a world where extremes thought they could win — but extremes will never win because they will always be inherently unbalanced. If extremes “win”, nobody wins.
I've had this pattern much of my life, where emotion often won the inner conversation. In other words, I had logic but logic could be easily swayed based on how I felt. I would then act based upon how I felt. My dear emotion, it's time to ground yourself now that you've brought us to a place that's required learning about #resilience ... My dear logic, it's time to put your foot down as the leader of emotion; you have necessary rules but built within your structure, you still allow emotion to play and create #aliveness and #whimsy in a wounded society where it's quite easy to get stuck in the perceived lack of #magic 🪄🔮✨️ there must be room for both. That is why people often find themselves on a mission to find their inner child once again. May they succeed.
Thankfully, I learn from a nature where plants can endure frost; a world where the only way to walk on water is for it to turn to ice; a world where the sun is so necessary and yet too much will burn. I love all seasons for different reasons but I especially love the Spring because it is here where I am reminded that resilience is built into the natural process of creation. Life persists.
