There are times in life when everything seems confusing, isn’t it a bad time?It’s not that you’re going through a lot of suffering or serious problems, but you see the days go by and you feel, deep down, that you’re not evolving, that you’re not growing, you’re trapped.
The dominant note is routine. Every day is very similar to the previous one, and although you don’t have to go through big problems, you can’t get excited about anything, you can’t activate your life force and you don’t want to try.
- You still managed to get used to the problems that bothered you.
- If you have a poor or harmful relationship.
- You stop thinking it might be better.
- If you’re not satisfied with your job.
- You give up and take anything.
- You’re not going back or forth: you’re stuck.
Stagnation is a state in which you cannot come into contact with your most authentic feelings and emotions, so you do not feel a real impulse to act, to bring about a change that enriches you and makes life more meaningful. Here are the signs, that you’re under arrest:
When you go through one or both of these periods of stagnation, there is certainly an indication of sadness or anger, or both, at the bottom of the situation. The fact that you’re in prison means that even if you don’t realize it, there’s a problem to solve in your life.
Secret depression is like an animal that constantly haunts you and robs you of vital energy, it’s a deaf rumor that has a great weight on daily perception, as if you’re actually putting on a gray veil and contemplating everything through this distortion of color. I don’t find anything interesting enough, because you’re not looking directly.
Anger, in turn, is one of the most crippling emotions, when it is rooted in you acts by eroding other emotions, repressed anger makes you hard, sarcastic and negative, makes you feel a kind of contempt for everything around you, and nothing helps you generate interest. This destroys your relationships with others and eventually affects your health.
The same goes for the guilt that sometimes settles in your unconscious, when what you haven’t said or didn’t say, or did and said, generates regrets and avoids this reality, it’s likely that the price is that paleness of your emotions and you’re going to live.
The stagnation stages should be carefully observed. Sometimes they just need a process of awareness and rething the conditions in which they live, other times, however, they are a sign that a crisis begins to trigger.
So when you feel like you can’t move forward, it’s best to go back, you’re stuck in a past situation that hasn’t been completely overcome and continues to affect your present, it’s true that life isn’t a bed of roses or a party every day, but on the other hand, it’s actually the only and most precious thing you have.
Living without living is not an option. The time of existence is too short to waste on unnecessary routines and unsatisfactory relationships. Your peace and happiness are the only goals you really should achieve. Silence must be left to the dead.
Images courtesy of Christian Schloe.