Youth = RESILIENCE: Snap back

Youth is hungry long before dinner is ready. We recall it as a rollercoaster of highs and lows, a mix of aspiration, beauty and joy as keen as a knife’s edge. Let us never forget that sense of Spring when all things were possible and we were the linchpins holding up the universe.

Youth’s sense of power is so disproportionate to reality it almost seems as if wisdom prohibits action rather than informing it. Almost as if the smarter you are, the less you can accomplish! Youth rushes in places Wisdom fears to even think about. Yet the sense of possibility and the delight in discovery are so heady nothing balks Youth for long. It’s all over far too fast.

We have discussed the fact that if you want a soulmate, you will have to kill dragons – both yours and theirs. There is trauma potential, to say the least. Every one of us have experienced trauma, many of us have forgotten it, most of us deny it. How we tell about the scars of life to ourselves has everything to do with how we represent ourselves to others. Today’s card is about “snapping back,” not just “recovery” but Plan B. We may need a Plan C, D, and E. The fact that the dragon got the best of us on one or two occasions is no surprise. Remember learning to drive? It is really about learning to learn, learning what to fear and not to fear, learning how to react to constantly new sets of circumstances. We are resilient, we are flexible. We are cagey, we are wily. By the time we meet our soulmate we will have our own dragons under control, and we will have many stories to share about The Ways of Dragons.

#Haiku: Goals

Courage is
Constant map redesign:
Looking backward
Planning forward