There are a few days in some months when I got to sleep with no knots in my stomach. On most other days, there is one knot or the other. These knots arise for various reasons – all related with dealing with the unresolved. This could be a tough decision, an important result, a difficult conversation, among others. The more responsibility you take on, the more unresolved situations there are.
Of course, these knots disappear the moment these situations are resolved. And, the other day, I found myself dreaming of a time when I could just go to bed knot-free.
It was then I realized that the resolution is a result. The period spent with a situation that is unresolved, on the other hand, is the process. And, over the course of our lives, the process is where we spend most of our time. We may not love dealing with what is uncertain and unresolved but we’ve got to learn to make peace with it. And, it begins with awareness and acceptance.
The conditions will never be perfect. We’ve just got to set sail and get on with it.
A Learning a Day 