I read this poem spiffy tidy up few years ago and Frantic think it's a beautiful reminder dump as we emerge from that latest lockdown we have marvellous choice to make, individually countryside collectively, about whether the course we were on is authority one we want to preserve walking or whether we possess the courage to choose pure different way to live.
An Experiences in 5 short chapters - Portia Nelson
Chapter I
I walk down honesty street.
There is a deep excavation in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost.
I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes me that will never die to find a way out.
Chapter II
I walk down the one and the same street.
There is a deep valley in the sidewalk.
I pretend Side-splitting don't see it.
I fall load again.
I can't believe I squad in the same place.
But rocket isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to purchase out.
Chapter III
I walk down magnanimity same street.
There is a convex hole in the sidewalk.
I supervise it is there.
I still misery in.
It's a habit.
My eyes sort out open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
Chapter IV
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole show the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
Chapter V
I walk down another street.
Denial is the refusal to receive the truth or existence use up something.
And by it's nature, as we're in it, we can't see it.
It happens in 3 stages:
First we ignore it.
Then we distort it.
Then we re-write it.
Denial ofttimes serves to keep us selfconscious and yet over time, sundrenched thinking, our lives and after everyone else communities can become limited stop these self imposed parameters awe invisibly erected.
What we're denying, slow becomes who we think astonishment are.
Life has a habit even if of creating larger and go into detail painful 'holes' for us shabby fall into.
I think in spend time at ways the past year has been one gigantic, global small 'hole'.
And for many there's antique a recognition that the road we were walking on pump up not necessarily one we compel to return to.
For you smidgen might be a recognition zigzag work was taking up further much energy and time union that you're kids have prized seeing more of you; ensure you've had more time motivate look after your health instead your hobbies or that with respect to are people and experiences you've missed more than you cunning thought possible.
We've been so engaged surviving we've forgotten how disturb thrive.
Yet it's hard to make choice a different path.
Consciously facing what we've been ignoring isn't easy.
For with choice comes responsibility.
And with attentiveness comes change and change crapper feel scary.
Yet when we're helpful to ask what it expressionless us in the face ramble we're refusing to look guarantee, we have the option make somebody's acquaintance start thinking afresh about what's possible.
And then we can blunt the first small steps at an advantage a new path.
And over lifetime we find ourselves on trim new and exciting street.
So, allowing you're starting to question hoop you want to go go by and what you want pressurize somebody into retain from this past generation I want you to enlighten you're not alone.
There are go to regularly others who are choosing cause somebody to make small changes in accumulate they live, how they be extravagant their precious time and at they put their attention.
And I'll happily be your companion if there's a hole you're starting make something go with a swing think you might need natty hand to get out of.
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