Just being

The message was to keep busy. so we kept busy. sometimes out of shame, sometimes to avoid certain truths. most times to survive. to be made to feel lazy and useless if you didn’t stay busy is what we experienced on a collective level, maybe so we wouldn’t slow down and thaw. maybe to prevent us from asking the important questions. what frequency do you want to live on? how do you want to design your life around time? how is a powerful system capitalizing on my energy? what was so traumatic for me that the one thing i don’t want to do is to stop and think about it and feel into its pain, or protect myself from reliving a sense of lack? why do i think if i look busy, i am enough? what does productivity mean to you if the fruit is never within your reach? - Susan Frybort

Sometimes just being needs space to relax, it needs time to pause from the pressure of living up to the duties and expectations of a rigid framework, or rest from showing up in full armor everyday to protect a tender internal truth, or sometimes just being needs to cry and feel into coarse emotions for awhile, whatever it takes for all the layers of what has built up inside begin to unwrap the gift you truly are, deep within, just being. - Susan Frybort