“In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
Robert Frost
I’m a very positive, energetic, and optimistic person, someone others look to for positivity and leadership. However, yesterday morning I woke up and, truly, was feeling pretty awful and down about something going on for me. I then saw a leader I look up to very much post online that for them, it was one of those days: “when you could cheerfully curl up in a ball and just wallow, breathing in, breathing out to work through it.“
That openness, vulnerability, caring to share with their tribe both inspired me and raised my spirits right away, such that I shared back to them a quote I felt would be supportive (and did feel positive for me too), writing: “All the best. I’m feeling really down today too, though know I’ll feel lifted by meetings today. Meanwhile, as Robert Frost said: “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
Oh, and I was indeed, as per my written reply above, lifted by meeting someone new (via LunchClub) early that morning and shortly after I sent that reply.
Writing all of this then reminds me of an earlier post I wrote around a moment of grief I had some years ago, together with the song by Peter Gabriel and the lyrics from it: “life carries on in the people you meet“. That post was called: “Life is about the people you meet” and contains a link to the video of the Peter Gabriel song, which begins low and as if grieving, then finishes on the other side as something truly uplifting.
Life. It goes on.