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Feelings Need Nourishment: A Short Reflective Poem
A short reflective poem on emotional nourishment — four lines about the forest inside us, and knowing when to act and when to pause.
A small one. Sometimes the work is to do something. Sometimes the work is to do nothing. The forest knows which.
Feelings need nourishment
Like the forest
Sometimes you need to act
Sometimes you need to pause
A forest doesn’t grow by trying harder. It grows by being patient with itself, by photosynthesizing in good weather and resting through the rest. We forget we’re partly the same thing.
If you’ve been pushing for a long time and something inside is asking you to stop, that isn’t laziness. That’s the forest knowing what season it’s in.
— JTC