Resistance is futile

I’ve been waking early over the last few weeks, a combination of being too hot in bed and a mind full of thoughts has kept me wakeful, excited I admit, but wakeful nevertheless. This morning it seemed the right thing to do to just get up instead of fretting and fussing and hoping I’ll go back to sleep. So at 4.30am here I am at my computer, writing. And it occured to me that the phrase I was looking for to get started is ‘resistance is futile’.  And I write that with a wry smile on my face because it has always been this way, but sometimes I want to stamp my feet and shout ‘NO, it’s got to be this way instead’. The phrase was first used in Star Trek as a message from the Borg when they encountered another race they were about to assimilate and it would be easy to assume that this has a similar meaning for me. But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In my last post, we are all walking miracles, I talked about things just making sense when I stopped and paid attention to what was going on in my body, instead of riding roughshod over the messages it was sending me. And it’s this aspect that I’d like to explore a little more this morning. Before I carry on though it’s worth pointing out that the word ‘resistence’ has become synonymous with ‘right’ across so much of our political spectrum and we see it in movements like ‘black live matter’ and ‘me too’. And, in...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Happiness thought Source Type: news