Draw your feelings journey – week 16 – Curious
Afgelopen week deed me beseffen hoe de dingen veranderen met het ouder worden. Nieuwsgierigheid was wie ik was, en ik was nieuwsgierigheid; vroeger kwam dat allemaal tegelijk: een gevoel, een wervelwind van gedachten, en dan springen en rennen om dingen te doen waarmee ik die nieuwsgierigheid kon uiten, kon beleven. Nu zijn het gevoel en de wervelwind van gedachten totaal niet veranderd, maar tussen dat gevoel en het daadwerkelijk doen zit vaak een lange tijd van twijfel of ik wel de energie heb om iets te maken van wat ik van binnen ervaar.
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Last week brought up for me the realisation of the changes with aging. Curiosity was me, and I was curiosity, it used to all come together at once: a feeling, a whirl of thoughts and jumping and running to do things to externalise the curiosity, to live it. Now, the feeling and the whirl of thoughts hasn’t changed at all, but in between that and the doing it is often a long time of questioning if I had the energy to make something out of what I experience inside.
Draw your feelings is a project created by Shereen
My drawings of curious
English translation:
- Curiosity is a whirlwind. But what if you don’t have the energy (anymore)? Can you be curious from a place of calm?
- Curiosity used to be a given; now it’s a delicate little flower that I have to nurture.
- You step into a world, and this opens up a new world full of exciting experiences.
- Curiosity has its ups and downs – sometimes it brings sadness, sometimes excitement
See previous week – envious
See next week – I’m not yet there 🙂
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Felicia Heidebrecht * Psycholoog in Delft, Rotterdam, Schiedam & online @ Lifeinmymind 