No, today probably won’t be a great day, but it absolutely won’t be a bad day either.
Today will simply be a day.
Twenty-four hours of a little bit of everything.
Some moments will be hard, some will be joyous, some will be peaceful and some will be draining.
And you, you will handle it all, because that’s what you do.
Don’t put pressure on yourself to have any kind of a day my friend, life throws enough at you.
Instead just remind yourself that whatever happens you are ready.
And most importantly, you have your own back.
It’s just a day, my friends.
Another day of life,
in all its messy ‘everything-ness’.
Lucky us.
Donna Ashworth
The poet Donna Ashworth hopes (in her own words) to “provide words that can be used everyday, as well as in those moments life hits hardest”. This particular poem made me think about the goodness of neutrality – the ordinary moments that may not be spectacular but are also not particularly difficult. Easy to overlook – but how wonderful it is in this moment to… not have toothache, for example, or to breathe freely without having a blocked nose! I’ve been glad at particularly difficult times where it felt hard to connect with something really good, to be able to relish the absence of particular challenges that would have made whatever was going on, harder still.
And the biggest one of all is of course the simple fact of aliveness. How very lucky indeed, to have another day of life!
PS if you’d like to wake up more to the wonderfulness of life, there is a new Mindfulness level 1 course starting before long, as well as a shorter course more focused on daily life, called the Wonder of the Everyday…
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