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Laura C.'s avatar

I’ve found that the spiritual progress is more of a spiral, maybe helix is the right word. It’s slow and cyclical sometimes it feels like you are backtracking, sliding backwards, but you actually are making progress. Getting from A to B in a straight line is human mental construct and not nature’s way. It takes a lot of reminders about acceptance. I guess that’s what floaters are (I’ve got them and I’m not a fan): everyday reminder of aging and what you can change and what you can’t. ❤️

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Kenny Bond's avatar

I suppose ( actually I know) there are at least two ways of looking at anxiety. I am also in recovery, in my 60’s ( I originally wrote early 60’s) and have anxiety as a constant companion. Some days I am the character in Jason Isbell’s song Anxiety. Today I feel like anxiety is a part of me like my brown eyes and my tendency to overthink. I can wear contacts to make my eyes look less brown (I assume I can) but under neath they are brown. I can catch my self trying to completely understand how a constant force spring works or I can just restring the blinds. I might have moved on and repaired the blind but there is still the awareness that I don’t truly understand how a constant force spring works ( I mean on a deeper level). Anxiety as I see it today is just a part of me. I can do things so it has a lesser impact but it’s still there. It’s always there and maybe it’s a blessing that I can’t see if I’m always fighting to destroy its presence in my life.

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