10 December 2021
Dear Sushila
I found this card in my cupboard. It's about sweet romances & I must have bought it during my travels, most likely in Amsterdam. It's an old card now and sweet romances have long gone from me! These days, it's inward contemplation and dependent mercy for emotional and spiritual sustenance.
As Carl Jung, a Swiss Psychiatrist puts it: "The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego. The second half is going inward and letting go of it".
It's so true. When I was working, it was all rush, rush, work hard, give your best, show results, disagreement with colleagues and even your boss! I'm so glad that those days of 'adrenaline rush' is over and when I think of it now, I asked myself- "whatever for?". Yes those days of simply existing and letting the days rush by seems meaningless. I wished I had slowed down a bit then and allow my emotional and mental being to mature with the years. It is only now in my retirement agedness that I learn to give myself time and space to be alone, to reflect and contemplate on my life, not on regrets; but more what I have learned from the past and to visualize how I will live my elderhood in the years to come. Hopefully I will become what this wise sage once said," One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming!".
Yes, you and I are still blooming, Sushila. We don't waste time worrying about our wrinkles or our weight. We continue to live a simple life and to do the things we love.
Simple is beautiful!
Love
Sylvia
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