The best way out is always through

Robert Frost's longish poem "Servant to Servants" has a lonely overworked New England farm wife lamenting about her dreary life to a visitor to their land . She sage recounts her husband telling her " The best way out is always through" This immortal line , so widely recalled expresses the best way to get through life itself. No amount of side-stepping, escape or meandering will get us through .

So with our emotions , I find. Being aware of what and how we feel and acknowledging it will take us through .. No point shoving our feelings under the carpet .

Another forward that spoke to me read " If feelings could talk "  and listed what they might be trying to tell  .. If  I cared to connect to myself and listen....... While we have the  to tendency to live the happy moments thoroughly and recall it with joy , we tend to skirt , ignore , patch up or  ignore  sadness and other uncomfortable emotions .Sometimes even let it spill on others in no way connected to the same.

When we forge this strong connection with self , we no longer need to do any of it . We learn to be aware of it, accept it  , embrace it and even learn from it . We tend to grow ,drawing from them and being nurtured by them .

I find being with myself easier this way , in sync with all that I feel.. the good, bad , sad and ugly...and the best way out is indeed always through...