The World Will Keep Spinning

This blog post is about a thought I had while looking at the stars and the night sky - both witnesses to the Earth's journey, both companions of it during its darkest hours, with the former still insisting on twinkling at it despite it all.

I discovered a while ago that no matter what happened, the world would keep spinning.

No matter what crappy thing you experienced in life,
no matter what trauma you were going through,
no matter how much of a break you needed,
how much you needed the world to stop just so you could breathe—

It. Would. Keep. Spinning.

It was frustrating, because I wasn't happy.
I needed to get some stuff done before I could be happy.
I had issues to deal with before I could be happy.
Problems to solve.

However, true happiness occurs when life keeps throwing curveballs at you—
and you catch them with a smile instead of frantically waving your hands saying,
"I wasn't ready!"

The world will keep spinning; that is something we all know.

But I realized that's not a bad thing.
There's beauty in the stars still being able to shine as brightly as they did before,
in the world still being able to push through and continue the way it did before,
in the availability of happy moments despite it all.
It's not a symbol of ignorance or neglect or insignificance—
but one of resilience and perseverance, of hope.

Dr. Julie, a clinical psychologist, once made an analogy when it came to coping with emotions.

She explained that emotions are like the ocean. Imagine you're standing in water about waist-high, and a slightly big wave is coming in.
If you tried to push against it, to fight it, you'd stumble. You'd fall. You'd lose your balance.
However, if you embrace it, if you let it flow over you, you will be more stable and more able to endure its impact.
You could change your stance to attain more stability, you could do lots of things.
The key point is that by embracing your emotions, you embrace stability.

Similarly, embracing the world's constant spinning is what will allow you to embrace happiness, what will allow you to embrace resilience and the feeling of being alive. 

Much like our emotions, the world requires movement to thrive. Just as still water becomes stagnant, we too become stagnant when we stop moving forward.

Water becomes stagnant when it doesn't move for a reason. Bacteria, algae, and fungi infest it, oxygen levels deplete, and it becomes chemically contaminated if exposed to chemicals.
It must stay in motion in order to prevent these effects. 
The same can be said for humanity. We must keep moving to prevent stagnancy and toxicity.

One of the characteristics of living things is that they move.
So why do you fight it?

To be alive is to move; to be the best versions of ourselves, we must embrace movement. 
The world will keep spinning, and so will we.
It is, quite literally, inevitable.
Embrace it <3