You have travelled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.
Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.*
John O’Donohue

what you’re desperate for is not the time to do it; it’s the energy to do it**
Katherine Morgan Schafler

My predilection is towards
slow and energy, but I wondered what might be observable if
I set these as one end of x and y axes:
It happens that I found myself active in each of the quadrants,
Though perhaps the quantity or quality were off –
Something for me to work on.

How about you?^

*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: For One Who Is Exhausted;
**Katherine Morgan Schafler’s The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control;
^Some helpful questions?: Am I successful at this? Does it help someone else? Am I being intuitive? Am I recovering energy? Do I grow as a result of this? Is it meeting a need in me? Am I always meeting someone else’s needs … or demands? Do I waste time? Do I always do as much as possible … or as little? Do I “crash” a lot? Do I notice more than others? Am I always doing the same thing? Have I always got a reason for not spending time on something different? Do I struggle to be? Do I struggle to do? Do I play it safe? When was the last time I explored? Do I struggle with the unfamiliar? Am I open to awe? Do I aim to be with people who are like me or different to me? Am I comfortable or uncomfortable being alone? Am I comfortable or uncomfortable being with others?