All things, good and terrible, fall apart' ~ Kristen Lin
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and questions to 'Ask a Life Designer'. Your questions were so thoughtful, and I'm working through them to identify a few common themes that I'll begin replying to this week. Please feel free to continue sending along your questions or thoughts any time (for more info about this, please see my last Life Design Project post or get in touch).
I'm noticing that this seems to be a time when we are needing to allow space for complexity and paradoxes. We're grieving and worried and sad and frustrated, and there's also joy and levity and love and caring. There's wishing for things to be how they were before, and also imagining how we can hold on to the parts of 'now' that we have grown to love and appreciate.
This quote from Pema Chodron's book, When Things Fall Apart, has been helpful to me, and maybe it will help you too:
"We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy'.
And from musician/artist Devendra Banhart:
'This time will pass. This thing we're going through, this pandemic, it too will fall apart'.
