“I know: it sounds so simple, and it’s so hard to do
To laugh when the joke’s on you”
so sings Spider Robinson in one of his songs (The lyrics to the song can be found in the novel Callahan’s Legacy, a book well worth seeking out) and tonight the song’s kind of up in my face. I find it so easy to advise people when they’re down or taking things too seriously that we don’t have to identify with our emotions. Just treat them like weather patterns across the face of our soul and that they too will pass. Words so easy to say and I do believe them I do. I just find it a little more difficult when the emotions are mine.
Free-floating anxiety. Sorrow. Wounded Pride, Resentment, Anger and of course the granddaddy of them all Fear. I can name the weather patterns just fine. Like anything else these emotions will pass through and I will regain equilibrium hopefully before I go to CT next week to celebrate American Thanksgiving at the Rosenberg compound.
I laugh at the knowledge that part of this seems to be associated with the weather as are most of my major emotional storms. Six days of rain, some really interesting and challenging Astrological Patterns (not a cause as much as a reflection. All causing a mini-Tower like effect.
Naming things help. Also knowing that this will pass also.
All part of clearing out the junk….