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So Mr Sawhney, I’m a writer or a poet of an idealist or romantic. So either way I probably live in an alternate reality concurrently too with the physical world around me! In response to your question with regards to the gap btw knowing and doing - what I understand intellectually but can’t see clearly to act - I would talk about being worthy. I understand, intellectually, that I don’t have to carry everything to be worthy. That my value isn’t in how much I can hold together for others, or how much I can absorb without breaking. I know that taking rest is not a reward and that setting boundaries aren’t rejection. I do know this clearly ‘intellectually.’ And yet, in practice, in everyday life, I still find myself stepping in, filling gaps, staying a little longer than I should. Not because I don’t know better, but because something in me still equates care with effort, and presence with endurance.

The gap isn’t in awareness.

I think that’s where doing becomes harder for me than knowing.

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