Today I sent one of those challenging yet important e-mails to my friend. Asking that crucial question: are you happy? As I typed the words I realised that I am not entirely happy.
Whilst the relationship with Mr Moon is working quite beautifully as a human being I am not complete.
Unfinished painting are all over our flat. I do not blog. I struggle to write. The washing machine is not working. I don't read as much as I desire to.
So why am I challenging someone else when I do not rise for the challenge myself? I have no right!
Why do you have no right to challenge someone else? Consider yourself (and others around you) as patients in a ward. We share any rememdies we may have heard about, or extoll the virtue of something we tried. We are all grasping at straws, hopefully some of them turn out substantial.
ReplyDeleteThe previous 7 weeks, I was in Canada (mixed emotional experiences over that), but while I was driving from Toronto to Kingston, I was listening to "Ideas" on CBC radio. They were profiling Canadian-Korean immigrant. She once asked her mother if she was happy, her mother replied, "Life is about surviving, not being happy."
I thought it sad. I think lif should be so much more than just surviving.
Yes, you have a right to challenge others. Yes, you have a right to feel exhausted and overwhelmed and ... well, bleh.
You also have the right ot challenge that, to try and rise above it.