When the passion stops, the energy stops, and so does the action. The moral to be learned here is, if you lose your passion, find your way back to it. Reconstruct it. And, in so doing, re-centre yourself. If you are going down a blind alley, turn around. If your primary relationship has lost it -- or is losing it -- make contact with where you are, in order to get back to where you want to be. Existentialize your relationship. Make your relationship more immediate and honest. If it is a love relationship, re-romanticize your relationship, re-seduce your lover...2 steps forward, one step back, play 'hard to get'...'heighten the anticipation'...and then finally 'deliver the goods'...
In a work situation, be as honest as you can without jeopardizing your job...Couch things diplomatically if need be...or if you have accepted the possible worst, then go for the gusto...get it all off your chest...Just have a backup plan if things spin out of control...I didn't have a backup plan...and I am still partly spinning out of control...
It is an unfortunate state of affairs but our private and public businesses still run at least partly on the Darwinian priniple of 'survival of the fittest'....and the Hegelian principle of 'the master/slave relationship'...
Until our economic picture improves, and/or our businesses subscribe to more 'democratic-inclusive' principles rather than 'authoritarian-non-inclusive' principles, you may be better just 'biting your lip'....re-propelling your thoughts and feelings downward (suppression) in the heat of the action rather than up and outwards (contact may be better for you therapeutically but not necessarily enhance or stabilize your business position unless you have circumstances and/or 'business leverage' in your favor...
Unemployment at this point in time, unless you have heavy backup funds, and/or you are in a strong enough self-marketing position to land yourself quickly in another stable or more than stable job/career, is not a fun ride...Economics precedes 'self-actualization'...in Maslow's hierarchy of needs...
To assert more essence or to put up more wall -- that is the question. Assert more essence and people can use it against you. Put up more wall and -- well, at some point -- you might as well be the wall.
-- dgb, Dec. 11th, 2009.
-- David Gordon Bain
