I’ve discussed life as an ECG a few times here. The specialty of an ECG is that every up and down are of a different depth/height. And while some of the ups are incredibly high, some of the downs are incredibly low as well.
The beauty of being human is that we have the power to play ‘Observer’ i.e. we can step out of our current selves and view the situation we are in perspective. Late Stephen Covey called that the ‘space’ in which we had the ability choose a response. You could call that ‘our consciousness’ but all fancy names aside, it gives us a unique ability, if channelled.
I was playing ‘the observer’ two days ago and realized I was hitting one of the lowest points of an curve in a long time. And a few hours later, voila! I felt like I had hit the lowest point.
This was a very liberating experience as I have a tremendous faith in hitting rock bottom because the only way you can go is… up!
I may yet be proved wrong but that feeling of a surge of enthusiasm is a good one. Maybe life is really moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm?
‘Even this will pass away.’
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