After a storm comes a calm.
– Matthew Henry
Yes but also no.
After the storm comes the coldness and then it gets better. Which is sort of calm but you still need to deal with the aftermath. Yet, the storm can bring you somewhere worse and the calm is even scarier because you cannot tell what will follow, the eery calmness is intimidating.
In nature before the storm everything gets quiet, birds stop singing, it feels like the motion around you is on pause. Therefore could also say it’s calm. But this calmness doesn’t bring good, it brings the storm.
Sure, in a lot of cases when life gets into the stormy phase, afterwards comes smooth calm time. That is great if that happens, I know for sure. Storm teaches about ourselves, friends and family. Storm can show a lot. Storm shakes us, breaks us apart, brings somewhere else (might be a great place, might be an even worse storm), but never lets us relax. Calm, well, it does the same, I cannot disagree, but there’s something about that calm period that irks me. During calm, you can go into sort of brain dead state, no worries, no fights, no movement. Calm waters cannot move a sailboat. People’s heads are wrapped in blanket and bubble wrap. Though this state mostly happens to people who have born into calm. Those who have been born into the storm, we know how to live in both storm and calm. Though surely, we appreciate more the calm time, when we truly need to relax and sit down to breathe.
What does storm mean? Does it mean bad times, horrible days and ruined lives? Maybe it’s the action, the fight for something, the movement?
Do we need to look at the storm as a harmful phase or we could see it the phase full of opportunities?
Why does calm is considered good? There are cases when calm is the worst thing that could happen. Still, calm is one thing that we need to look for as it’s necessary for our wellbeing. Ships cannot go into storm all the time, (I live next to the sea so that’s why references to boats) sometimes the best act to do is stay on the shore.
One quote, so many questions.
Thoughts that keep me up at night. 