Midsummer Reflections
The Muse Letter No. 63
Half a year has gone by. That’s just a mere fact, you will all have noticed looking at the calendar in the past days. Summer to me has never been a time to reflect much to be honest. We’re in the middle of things why look back now? – Was usually my approach. I want to enjoy the pinnacle, the heat (what little I can get in Scotland), endless nights, even when technically they are getting shorter now but emotionally and actually we’re furthest away from Winter: so why bother?
This year is different though. This year, this time, the pandemic-time has been so reflective that also now, in the midst of Summer I find myself looking back at the past 6 months. I guess in attempt to take what little control we have right now and use it. Counting the good days and the bad, realising a pattern, listing the things I have learned so far, that I am still learning and want to keep on learning:
To ask “How am I growing here? What can I learn from this?”
To ask “What would be the best possible outcome?” and then thrive for it
That the magic dark is a real place
To ask for miracles
To ask for what I want (over and over again)
To say “I know when I know” when I catastrophise about the future
and to acknowledge that ghosts of past relationships can be haunting when you let them
“The universe conspires in our favour” is a quote that is either from Goethe, Coelho or C.G. Jung - in one way or another they all have said it according to my google research just not exactly like that. Either way I think it is true.