He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
My friend, Dean, posted this quote about the abyss on Facebook the other day and it was just what I needed to read at the time. Isn’t it interesting how often life provides you with just what you need?
Tonight I decided to search out the context of it and, again, see something I need to read – the bit about monsters. It seems I’ve been occasionally fighting monsters for awhile now, and it’s obvious I’ve been taking the wrong approach. I need to just let them be and give them no more energy.
I walked away from some monsters earlier this year, but they circle around in other people’s lives that are intertwined with mine, cropping up occasionally wanting to engage in my world again. No more fighting against that. I will take the direct approach, and remove the people from my life who are still involved with the monsters. It is the proverbial two birds with one stone situation, and requires no more fighting with monsters for me.
For the first time in months I feel like I’m on the right path. Tonight when I was writing in my gratitude journal I had a bit of a breakthrough that was long overdue. Again, life providing when one is open.
I’m at a turning point where I have to make a new life, a new way, a new path. I’ve been here before, but it has always been more obvious. This is more subtle but no less necessary.
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