Hi internet,
How are you? Are you drinking enough water? Are you doing things that make you feel good? Do you know what makes you feel good? It’s ok if you don’t. I don’t really either. Not consistently anyways.
I was working on something earlier this week that involved writing on the topic of balance. The brief included the yin & yang symbol, and somehow it didn’t feel cliche. It felt really cool and wise, and kind of like the only thing that mattered. I felt drawn to yin > yang, but I wasn’t sure why. Everytime I tried to write about it all that came to me was, “more yin, less yang”. I kept trying to reroute my thoughts to something else, something a little more nuanced. As hard as I tried, all I could hear was more yin, less yang.
This prompted me to do a little research. I performed a complex google search titled “yin & yang”, and started reading the first website that populated. This is what I learned:
Yin is expansive, yang is contractive. Yin is feminine energy, yang is masculine. Yin is fluid like the ocean, yang is sharp like a stone. Yin is even numbers, yang is odd. Yin is soft, yang is rigid.
Reading this, it all made sense. Everything came together.
I lost my yin.
More yin, less yang.
More yin, less yang.
More yin, less yang.