Movement

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To move means to change. There is no stasis or stagnation in movement. It’s a moving forward and a moving beyond where one is at any given moment in time. Movement is a positive thing. It’s growth. It’s new thoughts and new things to see and do. And yet, movement can also bring pain. Change can be difficult emotionally. I often get anxious about change, fearing the unknown. But it’s also important. I fear even more becoming rigid. Without movement, the barriers get established and limits on one’s life are raised. And that is certainly something I don’t want.

All that being said, sometimes there is too much movement. Running helter skelter, here and there. Lives of stress, on the run, go go go. Such movement is not positive. On the contrary, it’s destructive, and meaningless. It’s counterproductive, setting one back rather than moving one forward into new being.

Movement in my life, unfortunately, tends to be more frequently of the latter type. One of my deepest hopes is that I’m able to distinquish the two, control the latter, and promote the former. I don’t think I’m very successful, at least not at the current moment.

It’s times like these when movement needs to slow or stop. One needs to be still both physically and mentally—slow oneself so that the world one occupies slows in response. The beauty of stopping movement in this way, at these times, is that the movement doesn’t really stop. The clarity and peace found in stepping off the train of chaotic movement allows one re-establish a productive flow of movement that benefits life.

Keep moving. Always. And seek the courage to neither be afraid of movement nor unwilling to free yourself from senseless motion.



Please check the blogs listed on the right for companion pieces to this week's prompt. Road Trip Girl is road tripping back to the blogosphere and should be posting again soon.

Next week’s prompt:
It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour
which the night fastens to all the timetables.
Pablo Neruda, "A Song of Despair"