The Inner Twilight: How to Live Emotional Transitions Calmly
Foto de Artem Kovalev en Unsplash 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, e...