For a while in the UK many stately homes seemed to have had a fascination with the oriental, in almost every one of their gardens there is a little corner where a red bridge takes the visitor to the other side of a pond or stream of water.
Bridging a gap can be either difficult or easy. For some of us we fill the gap with useless information, or with trivial things, some people fill in the gaps with work, some with food, some with more drama. An empty heart or an empty life it is seen as a life not lived. But do you remember the cat? Just because it lounges about a lot, does it have an empty life?
When there is a crevice starting to show in your word, how do you bridge the gap? What bridges do you built to make amends?
Today I was talking with a client about this very fact. This client appears to never have time to deal with their issues, and yet complained how nothing changes. They have reached a space in their own life where they have started to give up on themselves and those around them. This person is standing on the precipice of a total family break down and yet they are burying their head in work, in the hopes that this will fix it. Instead of building a bridge between themselves and their family they decided that work was a much better filler.
I guess their work can equate to the tadpoles in the water in the image, but if you tried to use them as a bridge to cross the water you would not get too far. But if you look at it, it could almost be like a moss covered meadow, and yet at close inspection is just something floating on the water.
My client is using their work as a way of hiding away from all their issues, in the hopes that the people around them will get to the other side of their own problems, without my client having to lift a finger. Hm, of course the strategy is not working, and yet they try and try again without success.
What kind of things are you using to hide away from feelings or thoughts?
What filler are you using to get away from your issues?
Do you mask things in the hopes that problems go away?
Do you pretty things up in the hopes that the cracks will not show?
Do you follow the trend in the hopes that it will fill a missing part of you?
Are you copying people, just to get by?
What is your proverbial red bridge?
Time to take out your diary and take some notes when answering the questions.
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