30 October 2021 — WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING — (Song by Billy Ocean)

I have no real idea why this song popped into my mind this morning, in fact the title was going around in my head. I hadn’t realised it was a Billy Ocean song until I googled it!

However, I wouldn’t say that I was consciously finding ‘The Going’ that ‘tough’ but i was in one of those ‘what’s the point’ moods — ‘I’m not sure if I can or want to do this’ and very much wanting to give up which is not usually my style.

I am a believer in C. G. Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious which suggests that we are all affected by what is going on in the world outside of us which, at the moment is disturbing and unpleasant. But, being aware of what is going on and allowing it to affect us are two different things.

Philosophically I tell myself that I have attracted the situation for a reason so I need to find out what I need to learn from it and move on.

The ‘going’ for me at the moment is perhaps NOT so much TOUGH as CONFUSING.

A hanging on my wall reads: ‘NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR AND DESPAIR BUT THE STRENGTH TO CONQUER THEM.’ which in other words is saying the same as ‘WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH THE TOUGH GET GOING’!

And so the answers to my problem of wanting to give up are to be STRONG and TOUGH. And hopefully I will conquer my inertia, understand what is causing my problem and move on.

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