To want to run away is an essence of being human, it transforms any staying through the transfiguration of choice. To think about fleeing from circumstances, from a relationship or from work is part of the conversation itself and helps us understand the true distilled nature of our own reluctance. Strangely, we are perhaps most fully incarnated as humans, when part of us does not want to be here, or doesn't know how to be here. Presence is only fully understood and realized through fully understanding our reluctance to show up. To understand the part of us that wants nothing to do with the full necessities of work, of relationship, of loss, of doing what is necessary; to learn humility, to cultivate self-compassion and to sharpen that sense of humor that allows you to get up every morning, and try again.
