The Most Important Days
The days where you feel nothing.
They make up the most of our time.
The days where we’re happy, sad, remotely emotional are few and far between.
No-one talks about these days.
Today is one of those days.
I’ve not been high or low on emotion at any point.
I’m sure a physiological examination will say otherwise.
I haven’t felt it myself.
And yet I still sit down and dedicate time to my blog.
My blog where I reveal all.
I remember when I did this the first time, I tried to invent up emotions.
That only lasted so long before I realised that the emotion we feel every day is natural and warranted.
I described these days to a friend a week or so ago:
‘We need to maximise these days.
We’re not living in the days of happiness or sadness.
We are not making ourselves better, stronger, savvier in those days.
It’s these days. The middle days. It’s these middle days where we’re in equilibrium.’
Equilibrium is a concept we try and strive for in our lives.
But we don’t do it actively.
Nor do we actually care if we achieve it.
In some ways, we say we’d like to get there but we’re in love with the madness.
If you’re not going to vouch for it in the physical manifestation of your day, at least account for the days where you feel nothing.
There’s a misconception that we have to feel something every day.
Love.
Hurt.
Happiness.
Sadness.
Stress.
Elation.
No. It’s a misconception.
A grave misleading of humanity to believe that we always have to be more.
I learned this when I did my blog the first time.
The blog isn’t for the times of extreme emotion.
It’s really to remind me that I can feel nothing and remind myself that these are the times where I need to cherish being here.
It’s not about wanting the good times to return, and ridding the bad times away but instead about learning that the middle, the equilibrium, is where it all happens.
Most of my best work occurred in a middle time.
Our best work always does.
The Most Important Days