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A Pema Chödrön Quote to Ground us in the Face of Burnout.
Two weeks ago, I made the decision to leave a moldy environment and move in with a friend.
This friend, whom I’ve met through a girl who is in my running group, was more of an acquaintance at the time when I had reached out to him to ask whether I could have a safe place to stay for a while.
Without asking so many questions or needing to know the full background story behind why I was abruptly leaving my current home, he said, “You can stay for as long as you want.”
At the time, I had only known this person for two weeks and had only met him in person around three times.
We were strangers to each other. We still are.
It is still extremely awkward. I have never lived with a stranger before, let alone with a man.
But he is kind and caring and human in his own special way.
He is the type who would gladly do things for you — like fix you a salmon bagel sandwich while you’re swamped with every f*cking adult responsibility that you could think about: finding a new home, maintaining a full-time editing job, working part-time at a yoga studio, and remembering to meditate every single morning and drink water as if your life depends on it. Or…
