I find so much comfort in this picture that one of the last times my mother gave me a birthday gift, she included a mug with this picture on it. The top of the mug is cracked now, so it's a penholder.
In the days prior to guiding myself to live consciously in the moment, if I felt like I do today, I wouldn't have written anything. I opened with this picture of comfort to say, today is a day of meh.
Nothing is wrong in particular other than the feelings of anxiety living in 2021 carries with it, plus my PTSD, plus my anxiety about money, plus my confidence issues. The thing is, humans are sensitive creatures, and some of us are more sensitive than others. Sensitive really just means aware. Those of us that feel that we may be, or are, empathic, will feel a heaviness on certain days. This heaviness is not ours; it's the result of energy we are feeling.
To use one of my classic examples to show how emotional energy works: Did you ever enter a room where two or more people have had a loud, angry fight or argument? If so, then you know you can feel that energy in the room. "Energy" really is the best way of describing it. It's a thing, it's there, it exists, and you can feel it. Also, it influences the actions of others in the room. Like weather.
So, we are living in emotionally charged times of trauma and post-trauma and we are all having our reactions to that, no matter where we may be on the sensitivity scale.
If you feel funny today and you don't know why, that may be why.
Time for my Sunday evening coffee and, heck, I may even make brownies to cheer myself up. Just don't tell my food journal.
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