I don’t know where to start, today. I feel like I need to write (mostly because I accepted a challenge and I have totally sucked at it so far), but it is almost as if there is nothing there – the voice inside me has gone strangely quiet.

There has been so much unrest lately, in many different respects. Perhaps this strange feeling of “quiet” is my intuition telling me that this is possibly a period of calm before the real storm. Or perhaps we are in the eye…waiting, breathless, for the next thing to happen – good or bad. We’ll never really know, though, until we can look back in hindsight with our 20/20 vision. If we’re still around, that is…

Be that as it may, it would probably be best to prepare ourselves – we can however only do the best we can with what we have, and hope that everything will work out in the end. It doesn’t always, but we can’t lose hope – that would destroy us.

I would love to be able to hand out some sage advice on how to cope with everything that’s going on around (and within) us, but I don’t have an iota of an idea of where to even begin. Others (who are far more educated/ experienced than I) have covered this topic rather copiously, and I would probably be regurgitating something I have read somewhere that you actually already know (or can easily find out). And really, does it matter what someone else’s theories are? Half the time we end up quitting halfway (or don’t even begin with something) because no single method/ solution is right for us – we often need to combine ideas and theories and solutions to get the right “mix”, but don’t really know how to do so, consciously. However, deep down, we already know what is best for us, we just have to find out what it is (or rather, acknowledge it) – and so I will remain mum. I am certainly no expert – I’d rather you found your own way. I’ll bet you were waiting for an easy “out”, but I’m not going to give it to you. Sorry (not). You need to do what’s best for you, at this point in time, using the solutions that best fit the “problem” – no one can decide these for you.

Perhaps we all need some “stillness”, once in a while, to allow us to contemplate and recover – even if it seems completely odd after constant “busyness”. Perhaps this is why I am at odds with myself today – it’s just so strange to feel completely and utterly “silent” inside. Time to embrace it, I think, and become comfortable with its foreignness – it would be great to maintain this feeling of calm. Besides, being dead-calm and collected in a world of chaos and complexity is what really scares and intrigues people – and we all know how much fun that can be to watch.

Keep hoping, keep at it – or quit if you need to – but know that each decision is yours and yours alone.