MARRIAGE
Life is an awkward dance with many changing partners. As we get older we try to curate our own experience, pick and choose, seeking partners who can support us and whom we can support. But given that each of us contains a wilderness it follows that our partners must also, so now we’ve got a minimum of two wildernesses to contend with. And when you mention the word “marriage”, THAT means you are deliberately bringing family into the picture; God only knows how many wildernesses that creates! Some of us seem actual howling wastelands. We are taking the time now to count and dress our wounds. We know families and partners can sabotage us. We ourselves can welcome sabotage. Any self-improvement regime presents a threatening separation from the group and a potentially rejecting condemnation of group shibboleths. We’re just looking for self-love and air to breathe. So how continue the dance with all these changes underway? First, stop forcing outcomes. Allow events to swirl about and away from us without contributing. Express your mantra: I release you. I am enough. I accept the light. Center within ourselves. Let us observe. The most powerful, the most 4expressive, the most envied reflect and perpetuate obvious pain. Can we muster compassion for their suffering? A small green thing flowers inside us. We will protect, encourage and love it into the sh4eltering universe.
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