Why this?

There has been a couple of things  that have occurred in the last week that has inspired me to write this blog and to put myself out there in a different way. The first of these events was the death of Robin Williams. I know that there are a lot of people out there who are experiencing a sense of loss at the death of such a creative, funny, warm and talented person. Many people too, I am sure, have been personally touched by Robin either in person or through his films. It got me thinking, what was so bad that he had such a dark moment that taking his life was preferable to anything else? As someone who has had many dark moments and thought very hard about ending my own misery, I felt deeply sad that anyone else had suffered something akin to my own. I really wanted to do something ( I am a do-er!) but didn’t really know what.

The following day I watched a video by Russell Brand commenting on Robin’s death. He said some stuff that really resonated with me. He suggested that as humanity we need to see how special and precious people are, that we need to not close off to others but to be present for each other. That we need to connect with others and promote mutual togetherness. Mutual togetherness. I love that phrase. On the one hand the two words are kind of mutually exclusive, doesn’t togetherness suggest mutual? Maybe not, maybe yes.

The last little piece that pushed me to this blog was a coaching session I had yesterday. We discussed what made me happy and my coach reflected back to me that I valued connection with others. What we also came to was that I want more of that. As an introvert that can be a bit rough. I did however, want to explore what sort of connections made me happy and did it have to be a full on relationship (family, friend, partner) or could there be fleeting moments of connection that made me just as happy as a long term relationship? How could I connect with others? I decided to explore connecting with others for 100 days and see what connection looks like, where it takes me and who crosses my path. I am going to write about that in the hope that it creates even more connectedness and mutual togetherness.