Can Time Heal?

 Auden wrote, ‘In headaches and in worry vaguely life leaks away, and time will have his fancy tomorrow or today’.

Most people’s lives are lived through a series of peaks and troughs, good and bad, happy and sad. It is uphill coming out of a trough, it takes energy to keep going until you are over the top, and for people who are anxious and unhappy, energy is usually in short supply.

The following work is an idea full of hope that even if you feel you have no fight left, just waiting for the old order to pass will bring about change.

The Dyke

"I have met a fortunate few who have never been aware that it existed; that it stood safely encircling their lives. They have managed to survive, their uncertainties in tact, their skies as blue as when they were first fathomed.

Taken for granted like health and happiness you only notice it when the first breach appears. The black waters enter, trickling in rivulets and patterning the land with dark threads, or as the case may be, crashing across the walls, breaking them down and covering the fields.

When the tide ebbs as all tides must, the dyke will begin to be re-built, as all dykes must or as the case may be, simply patched up. The salt mud must be made fertile, in time, with work or alternatively without appearing to bother very much, new grasses will grow even a few trees.

It will not happen again. The dyke is stronger, built to withstand further destruction. The builder knows his apple trees will bloom, that in the autumn fruit will appear and fall just as it did before, only the taste will have altered. So when the blossom comes again, it will be necessary to view the flowers from a new perspective".

Jenny Morgan,  MTP Press.

 This wonderful interpretation of the human spirits ability for recovery and re-growth is not only inspiring it reflects how without any effort on our part there are situations we find ourselves in, which will resolve naturally with the passing of time, and I wanted to share it with you.

Burke called time ‘The grand instructor’, and the secret to recovery may well be to recognise what needs to be repaired right now and what can be left to time.