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Sometimes keeping it together is the order of the day.
Mostly life feels good. Mostly it is filled with happiness and blessings.
But sometimes it feels like everything you have is dust and ashes and nothing seems worth holding onto.
Or else what you have or had does seem like it’s worth something, but you feel it all slipping away through your fingers.
The question is whether to let it crumble and blow away on the wind, or to hold it together until this feeling, or this drama, passes by.
There isn’t a single right answer. There actually can be enormous value in burning everything down, and then being reborn out of the ashes. Other times what you feel is just tiredness and actually everything that you have is really quite perfect and if you just hold it together long enough to get some decent sleep then you will be glad to have all of those things still tomorrow.
And it’s also possible to do a bit of a mix. Actually I’m going to renege on my “no single right answer” statement now and say that a mix of letting go and holding together is the right answer. If you are not happy then something should change — even if it is as little as letting go of a commitment or two to do some self-nourishing. Likewise, even if you are unhappy, probably there is a lot of good stuff in your life that shouldn’t be destroyed or abandoned.
That’s what I’m going for now anyways — a couple of big adjustments but keeping everything else there.
I’m going to keep it together.
