Me, languishing? This is the Daily Disturbance Podcast with Anthony Angiriman. Yes, you, either as a whole or in some area of your life. Isang aspeto o kabuuan ng buhay.
I'm looking at the sore thumb right now because of a burn caused by a hot surface a few days ago. This portion of my thumb, it's languishing. It's neither dead nor is it fully alive. And it will heal given some time.
But there were days, and I'm sure there will be in the future, where an issue, a problem, a disappointment, a sin, causes my entire system to slow down, to pause, to grind to a halt, to struggle just to survive. So you can have languishing in one area or your life as a whole. Add and grant, languishing is a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels as if you're muddling through your days, looking at your life through a foggy windshield.
It's the neglected, take note, middle child of mental health. It's the void between depression and flourishing. The absence of well-being. So it's like neither here nor there.
It's like when you ask a kid, right? How was your day at school, whether online or on-site? The way they answer normally is a languishing answer. So in what area are you possibly languishing today?
Physical? Emotional? Is it mental? Spiritual?
And then now you think of yourself personal Or is it a family issue relational or is there languishing at work professional Happens to all On certain days in some area of your life perhaps as a whole at certain times of your existence. Johann Wolfgang von Geith. Thus, I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment, languish for desire. The global crisis has certainly precipitated lots of experiences of languishing.
In fact, as a consultant, as a speaker, as a trainer, it's been on top of my engagements the past months as a priority of my clients. An MRS, a most requested session, not just in the corporate life or the corporate world, but NGOs, every kind of community you can imagine. Yesterday, I posted a tweet about my experience of thinking to myself quietly, maybe I shouldn't run today. I'm still recovering from a leg challenge after diving.
So maybe just a couple of days more of recovery. And then Benjamin comes into the room and says, Dad, can we do a three kilometer run? Just 3K. And then right behind him, my 10-year-old Solana, and can I please follow you guys on the scooter?
Those two faces in front of me. And what did I end up replying? Sure, let's go. My kids Pulled me out Of some Sense of languishing In the physical body Languish We all do Name it To tame it Diagnose it To prognose it Confess it To arrest it