The Inner Twilight: How to Live Emotional Transitions Calmly

 

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There are moments in life that are not entirely clear. We are no longer in the full light of what we know, but not yet in the darkness of what’s to come. We are in-between. In transition.

That inner threshold is what I call the twilight within.

Twilight as a mirror of the soul

Twilight doesn’t only happen in the sky, with impossible colors and long shadows. It also happens inside of us. It’s that emotional moment when we leave behind who we were, but haven’t yet discovered who we are becoming.

Sometimes it feels like a silent mourning, a farewell without ceremony.
Sometimes like vertigo, when the heart races because the mind doesn’t know whether it’s losing or gaining.
Other times it feels like a strange calm, as if something is ending, yet something else is quietly beginning.

Twilight reminds us that life is never static: we are always in transit, in movement, in transformation.

The chiaroscuro of emotions

In these inner twilights, emotions don’t appear pure or separate. They blend together like the colors of the horizon:

• nostalgia with relief,

• fear with desire,

• sadness with hope.

What looks like chaos is, in truth, the nature of being alive: nothing stays pure, everything shifts, everything transforms.

Accepting that frees us. It reminds us we don’t have to be consistent all the time. We are allowed to be contradiction. We are allowed to be a mixture.

How to inhabit twilight

The real question is: what do we do when we find ourselves at that emotional threshold?
It’s not about running away, nor forcing clarity. It’s about learning to inhabit the transition.

• Allow yourself to feel, even when it hurts.

• Write down what’s happening inside, even if it doesn’t make sense.

• Light a candle, take a breath, remind your body that it is safe to be here.

A simple practice that helps a lot is keeping a personal journal. Not as a perfect diary, but as a refuge of words where you can spill emotions and thoughts without censorship. Writing won’t magically solve everything, but it creates space to listen to yourself.

👉 One of my favorites is a beautiful and simple journal on Amazon. Choose one that inspires you, with soft pages and a cover that invites you to write. Keeping it nearby can be an anchor in your own twilights.

We are transition

Twilight teaches us something essential: there are no absolute endings or pure beginnings. Only transitions.
Just as the day doesn’t vanish in an instant, and night doesn’t arrive all at once, we also don’t change in a single moment.

We are twilight beings: always dissolving and reshaping ourselves. Always in-between who we were and who we have yet to become.

And perhaps that’s the hidden beauty: accepting that trembling is also part of life. That uncertainty, though it frightens us, also opens doors. That every ending carries within it the seed of a new beginning.

Twilight — outside and within — reminds us that we are fragile and eternal at the same time. 🌑🌅