Provocation
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others . . . and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Frida Kahlo
• We’ve come to the end of our Wellness journey: what did you think about it in the beginning? What are your thoughts now, after ‘all the being and the doing’?
• What ‘strange adventures’ do you hope for in the future?
• If you had a time machine, would you go forward or back?
• Frida Kahlo says ‘everything flies and goes away’ – what, if anything, comes back?
Task
Write a letter to your future self. It can be as long or short as you want. You can keep it in a special place, or post it on https://www.futureme.org/ (they’ll send it to you at your appointed future date), or burn after writing. Think of it as a portable time capsule linking who you are right now to who you hope to be. You can use this letter as a place to express your goals – by making yourself more conscious of your goals, you can start imagining the steps towards them. You can summarise your current self: What are you happy about? What do you wish to change? Who are your friends? What are your dreams?
