Torn
(3/30/22)
Separate and Simultaneous:
Love and disgust
Freedom and responsibility
Relief and guilt
Joy and exhaustion
Present and disconnected
Happy and sad
Confident and doubtful
Does one magnify the other?
How do you contend?
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I like it! Very profound. Your style is so simple and beautiful. We would like some different pictures for each post for color. Maybe you’ll consider? I love mandalas!
I had a friend share with me a quote she attributed to President Obama-- I’m still trying to verify that.
It was that two diametrically opposed truths can exist at once. And that led me to thoughts about how we are such complex beings and it is so limiting, frustrating, and unnatural for us to think and feel we can only experience one emotion at once or that we even should. And even if they are completely “opposite” emotions it doesn’t mean one is wrong or the other is right. They are both a true experience.
So I think they can be separate, simultaneously, and then both.