Maintaining the Internal

strength is internal

In the future, it’s the many parts of our internal selves that keeps us thriving.

Photography by Tribe & York

Being free from the everyday roles and responsibilities has been an experience one hasn’t felt in a long time.

Not having to go anywhere. Not having to do anything.

All of a sudden the pressure is off. There’s a general consensus that says everyone RELAX.

Relax until this passes.

And it shall. But where will we be? The same place we started?

Where will we be?

Some are using this opportunity to do just that. Get a jump start on where we’ve been.
Others don’t trust the moment and are working even harder to keep momentum.
While others are preparing for a shift in the  practical and internal sense.

Most of what seems to be going on is internal.
It’s the only thing one can maintain in this world.

Spending more time maintaining how I feel internally and less time on the practical is giving me the kind of [rest]oration I didn’t know I needed.

A rest from over-doing in areas of life that don’t need my attention. A rest from being many things for many people all the time.

What to pay attention to?

The mental space I find myself in each day needs my attention.

My home needs my attention.

My life needs my attention.

When everything in the physical world ceases to be important, a sudden shift of what is important comes into view.

The key is holding on to this perspective as things slowly creep their way back into our lives. Creating a life of useless clutter.

A life filled with a bunch of things that don’t matter all because it looks like it does.

This feels like a rare opportunity that the world stops long enough to ask ourselves,

‘Is what I’m doing with my life what I want to be doing with it?”

Not just I a professional sense. In all of it.

What now?

There’s a temptation to stay on the train we’ve been riding for so long. Because if you don’t, you could be left behind.

Right now, the train is going so slow you can get off, go look around, take a walk to come back and see the train has barely moved.

We’ve picked up things along the journey that reflects where we’ve been, what we’ve seen, and who we’ve become.

Some of the things were not ours to have but we held it for someone we loved.

Some things we were born with and never noticed it until now.

A lot of things society and culture gave us automatically.

Moving forward,

may your life be a reflection of what you choose to carry and not what you’ve been given.

Feel free.