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Friday Feelings 3/27/20
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I haven’t done one of these in a few weeks.
A lot has happened in a short time frame, and at the moment, the world is shifting to the pandemic of the Corona Virus, so am I.
I have resisted saying anything because I don’t like jumping to conclusions about what is occurring, nor am I not qualified to speak about such an event. But I will share my feelings during these dark times.
Oddly enough, I feel I have experienced this type of chaos in life.
Deployments taught me a lot about life. Fear, anxiety, and uncertainty are part of the unknown. The unknown is terrifying as our mind looks for any which way to survive the chaos mostly because we have no clue what is to come.
It is here where I find myself leaning into life more than ever before.
Chaos invites me to listen to my heart, trust my gut, and realize at the core of all the darkness there is hope.
All of the things I have encountered in life have given me the ability to find my true self. This, to me, is how we master the art of tough transitions.
