Being Here – Day 3

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Being Here – Poem Day 3

Today’s poem is another one for reading. (optional audio link at the end).

It widens the view a little, staying with the experience of when everything feels too much and placing it in the context of how life often moves around us.

There’s nothing you need to do with it. You’re welcome to read it briefly, read it slowly, or leave it for another time.

Thank you for being here in whatever way works for you.

Warmly,
Per

When everything feels too much — Noticing

There are times when the pace of life leaves little room between moments.
Days fill themselves quickly.
Transitions blur into one another.

Messages arrive faster than they can be answered.
News, opinions, expectations, information —
all moving at once,
all asking to be taken in.

Even ordinary routines can begin to stack up.
Work, care, responsibility, decisions —
each reasonable on its own,
but relentless when combined.

This isn’t unique to one kind of person.
It happens in busy lives and quiet ones,
in times of change
and in periods that look stable from the outside.

The world has learned to move quickly.
To fill silence.
To reward availability.

In that context, feeling overwhelmed
is not surprising.
It is often a natural response
to living without much space.

Noticing this doesn’t explain everything.
It doesn’t offer solutions.

It simply places the experience
where it belongs —
not as a personal flaw,
but as something shaped by how life is lived.

Seeing that clearly
can change the way the moment is held.

Warmly,
Per

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