Paths: Silence

Isn't it just your day to day every day 7 times a week to send or reply to twenty messages, seeing a few friends during the day, and going home to your family, where you cook for everybody, only to be sort of on the go for a few hours before being so exhausted that you just fall asleep immediately, only to start this/your hamster wheel in the morning fresh and rested?

Take a pause. For example, if you feel like you're too busy all the time, find to a tranquil and peaceful spot after work for 30min. To reset, to slowly change your mindset.

You don’t have to meet that one friend at 5.30pm, but use that time for you! Your friend, let's call her Susan, will somehow live on and manage if you're not having coffee with her.

Susan might come to your sacred, peaceful spot, with you if you share it, and find a new purpose herself. See, it's the ripples that get turned into more ripples, right?

Then it's only about 6pm, and now you're somewhat centered to go home to your family. And doing the tasks that you always do, but with a newly found calmness.

It is really a saving grace to everyone around you, isn't it? You've become the epitome of calm and calming the other people too.

I truly believe that when a person knows they're in the absolute right occupation and just excited for it, then that excitement should ripple outward, and feel in their energy, inspiring others as well.

But the path is found only through silence; getting the thoughts room to roam. You can take notes later. You're not in a hurry, no one is chasing you or pressuring you to 'just make up your mind and fast!'. Can you imagine it? People do that to themselves, I find. So, it's you who is the chaser-pressurer.

Can you already feel like shutting any thought and just having your takeaway coffee while bouncing around?

But, in quiet, your path becomes more clear day by day. And you'll learn, finally, to carry that compass in your pocket wherever you are.

X Johanna