“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary.”
~LR Knost

I feel like I have lived all of this in 2024- the amazing, the awful and the ordinary.

I guess we call it life.

While we love the amazing and we despise the awful, we often forget about the ordinary. The beauty that middle spot offers is the ability to know that the amazing doesn’t last forever but neither does the awful.

It’s the sweet spot.

Ask someone going through a trauma, fighting an illness, experiencing financial trouble or grieving someone they lost—they will tell you what they miss most is the mundane. The basic. The regular. They crave simple: stability, silence, staying home and sleep. Solace and peace are often found in sameness and when we pause, we find little joys are all around us.

But they often lie in ordinary.

When we give the moments between amazing and awful a chance, we can focus on the extraordinary things happening in the ordinary moments of life.

Driving your kids to school. Talking to an old friend. Hugging your spouse. Walking your dog. Sitting down for dinner. Hearing a great story.

The unadorned moments are the big moments and life can be so much more fulfilling when we recognize that everything that we thought was ordinary- wasn’t.

Be well in 2025 and I wish you moments of amazing, strength during the awful, and an abundance of ordinary.
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