Enneathought for the day from the Enneagram Institute:
I think that this statement is saying that we should fully experience our discomfort rather than trying to bury or ignore the emotion, because when we do so we also ignore other important stimuli both internal and external. Is this correct, and if so, how do we achieve a balance between staying present to discomfort and wallowing in angst as 4s are prone to do?
Dear speculative,
This thought for the day resonates with me, an example;
Yesterday I was turning onto a highway, and realized that traffic was abnormally slow, fuck, I thought, I should have taken the scenic route instead. And what was the cause for the delay of traffic?
This is hard.
*seriously trying hard to fight back a deluge of tears*
Well, there was this opossum crossing the entrance to the highway, it was badly hurt, it was dragging its bloodied and badly broken right hind leg, attempting to go somewhere, I don't know where, and we waited in line for it to cross, we, who built the highway, we, in our big fast shiny cars, we, responsible for this opposum's pain and suffering...
It was going to die, it is probably dead.
Where did it die?
Was it scared?
Confused?
In pain?
The limping, critically injured opposum, pre-roadkill, I'm not used to seeing animals pre-roadkill.
What a horrible way to die?!?!
How confused and shocked these animals must be. With these cars whizzing by so fast, an animal should die on earth, not concrete.
This image of this opposum is so vivid, and it has been lingering ever since, I bury my feelings, because to feel them is to drown in that familiar place, that ever present pit of infinite sadness, the infinite sadness inherent to life.
Even writing this feels cheap.
You had to see this opposum.
I don't know.
Bleh.