Today I give myself permission to feel yucky. I remind myself that it is okay to feel blue, sorrowful, or sad. Without sadness, how can one feel joy? There would be nothing to compare joy to if sorrow did not exist. Joy and sorrow, sadness and happiness are not opposing forces, nor are they polar opposites. They are on an emotional spectrum. Joy is the light of blue. Sadness is the shadow of happiness, the balance of yin and yang. In the middle is where they meet, in the gray area, in the balance of emotional hues. Just as the grass may seem greener on the other side, it is merely a different hue from a different view. Perhaps in taking a step outside of one's existence, not in comparison to another person, or oneself, they can view themselves as being whole. Wholeness contains sadness, gladness, and the places between the extremes. Sorrow and happiness meet in the middle to compliment each other, to become one, to become whole. One cannot exist without the other, so why deny them? There is a place of pause in stillness of one’s thoughts, where one can merely exist. I call this place the comfort zone. Somewhere between feeling yucky and feeling happy, between blue and light, one can just be in the comfort zone. Today it is okay to just feel, to exist outside of one's comfort zone. The mind will move itself towards wholeness, passing through the comfort zone, through discomfort, oscillating as a beautiful movement of light. Just for today, embrace the blue shadow, or the illuminated joy, wherever one's psyche is. Today, just be.
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