Hit Pause

I had been back in New Zealand for more than a week and aware that I hadn’t written anything much.

To be honest I hadn’t had the time.

Not the ‘normal’ time that is measured in hours and minutes, but the emotional time that is measured in heart beats.

Emotional time is where the head space comes from … the place where stories are formed, the place where imagination catches fire, and the place where ideas become words.

I hadn’t had the emotional time because traveling is exhausting.

I arrived back and it took me a week to catch up on sleep, work was piled up, new demands from clients, editors and best friends surrounded me … and there was almost three weeks of family time I needed to reclaim.

So I went away again … but this time a real holiday. A real holiday to catch up on that emotional time. …. with family and friends.

Too often we allow ourselves to be robbed of our emotional time and we end up ‘coping’. I am guiltiest of that.

I know that the terminally obsessed will query where I am coming from, but it is true, so every now and them we need a pause from our extremes of activity to let our hearts and spirits catch up.

Cheers and hugs, Johannes

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