I don’t know what scares me more:
The thought of having a full life again, and even busier and more surprising than ever before. With international travel, adventures, and a mission.
But also forgetting the lessons intense isolation taught me.
Or for this loneliness to be eternal.
Which does have the unexpected advantage of never forgetting the profound life-changing insights loneliness gave me.
I would never need a cheat sheet because the lessons would never become a memory in the first place. They’d stay a lived experience.
Now don’t get me wrong, I have so much faith my life will move forward like that first paragraph.
If someone asked me for advice there, about the unnamed fear of losing the only thing, the very gift, their darkest years have taught them, then I would answer:
“Give yourself room to lose it. Be great in the beginning, then deteriorate, talk nonsense. Let people judge you’ve lost it. Let yourself be remembered as someone, who for a very brief moment and through great personal sacrifice, was given an almost divine clarity.
And then dropped back into the limited human consciousness we all have.
Let it go.”
So I will tell myself that too.
But the second one? Tougher. It means an acceptance that you may not matter, and a letting go of the need to ever be witnessed, to ever be acknowledged.
And yet rationally I can see how the path I am on cannot be complete without fully embracing the idea it will never end and I’ll be “here” forever.
What I answer now is this:
Anywhere you want to go, it can only feel good if you consciously chose it.
Including accepting loss, isolation, and aware that in the end;
The path could turn out to have been the destination.
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