Tapaigh an Dies

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Overcome it. Take a million baths. Reconsider faith. Pray like it is a conversation. Take pictures so you can force yourself to look at something else; learn that forced distraction is underrated. Find a new place to live and cloak it with the softest fabrics you can find. A new bed that feels like sod. Hang all the pictures you love. Find three new bands to fall in love with. Write all night. Open the windows.

Get your feet.

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Read more. Eat at new places. Start to cook again. Believe that you deserve the slow hard nutrients of a meal made at home, from scratch, just for you. Take up yoga or anything else that reminds you of your strength as you overcome the fear of failure at it every day. Surround yourself with friends who knew you before and with new friends. Stitch a cape of people who are thrilled to help you become something new.

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I want you to believe me that change is the most eternally-hopeful, consistent and vibrantly rewarding resource in life. It might be my religion. You want to know how to be remade? Soften your grip on expectations. Embrace and delight in the idea that this is just one option.

You know what surrounds you? A hundred fucking beautiful possibilities and we all ought to be blinded by the field of freedom and potential and grace in which we stand. You can leave. You can change. You can start over. You can choose differently, even now. Maybe more than anything in my life, I am grateful for the proven understanding that we are never stuck. Are never lost. That we are resilient and resilient and resilient. That we are remade again and again and are almost incapable of remaining in the mire, lamenting our original form and comforts. I am so grateful to understand that change (once coped with) seeds adventure and new characters to love and new travels and this invaluable grace and softening.

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