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- ⏳ Erebus Growing | 0037 - Tenet 1: Life will out
⏳ Erebus Growing | 0037 - Tenet 1: Life will out
Life will continue because it must
Welcome to Erebus Growing, a weekly email where I share little snippets of life to help you change and grow into your highest life.
This week I finally received my updated job description from the 9-5.
It helped solidify things for me so that I can truly start planning on how to accomplish my current work but also what my departure will look like when it happens.
There are also Christmas items out on the sales floor at the part-time. I’m excited about the holidays, but it’s too early even for my tastes.
Later this week, I have a trip home for a couple of days. I’ll get to see my mother and celebrate the wedding of one of my closest friends.
It’s going to be a busy couple of months as my job search begins to intensify because I’m also looking to get back to focusing on my own work. After all, none of this will be worth it if I just move from position to position over the years.
👨🏻💻 Meditation
Life will out.
I first came across this concept from Grey’s Anatomy, a quote from Amelia Shepherd, one of the more complex characters on the show.
She talks about it in reference to a large tumor that she is attempting to remove from a colleague’s brain.
She moves into a beautiful explanation in this video and discusses how, from the tumor’s point of view, she (as the doctor) is the problem.
The core of this for me is that life will always find a way to continue.
No matter what has happened, life will continue.
More critically, it reminds me to consider that life does not exist only from our point of view.
We always see it as that, but it’s not. It exists as vividly as ever for others as it does for us, a topic explored by John Koenig, author of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with the word Sonder.
Sonder is defined by Koenig as:
The realization that each random passerby is the main character of their own story, in which you are just an extra in the background.
When you take a moment and genuinely consider that the life of a person you see in a restaurant or walking down the street across from you is every bit as vivid.
The same hopes, fears, worries, joys, triumphs, defeats, cravings, hatred, persistence, desire, fun, pain, concern, love—it exists for them in the same way it exists for you.
We’re all a part of the tapestry being woven by the Universe.
We each have our color that we bring to the loom.
And we are wound with others for a time. Some forever, many for a period, and still more whom we barely touch.
But even after our spool runs out, the tapestry continues.
It leaves some measure of comfort that life will continue for so many even when, at the end, mine ends.
That life is truly a precious gift to hold for a time and then let go of when the time has come.
The idea that life will find a way carries some gratitude in facing death, particularly that of loved ones.
Life will continue—you will continue—because it (or you) must.
Life survives because that is the meaning of life.
It continues, lives, breathes, pulses, regenerates, exists because it must.
As a whole, life will out.
As an individual, life will end.
And that is what brings meaning to it.
Life will end, but that’s a meditation for next week.
📚 Inspiration and Resources
Every week we all consume content and I share my favorites here.
Use.
I’m going back to try a tool I had a few months ago but didn’t really dedicate myself to. BetterMe. It’s a general fitness app to work on improving yourself and honoring your body. They seem to have a much better interface than some of the other tools I’ve explored, so I’m excited to see how the next three months go. Give it a try here.
Read.
I have a ton of books, but one I referred to today started off as a Tumblr blog. I spent a lot of time exploring that particular Tumblr blog, but lost it over the years. The name, though, stuck with me: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Since then, John Koenig has written a book of the same name with much if not all of the content from the Tumblr blog. I highly recommend it as Koenig spent the time studying many languages to begin crafting new words such as the one touched on today: sonder. Give it a read here.
📓 Journaling Prompt
Journaling is one of the most important things to do when exploring our own lives. A new prompt for you to use this week is below.
When was the moment that the vividness of life for others became real to you?