Irene & Astrid: Nothing stays the same

It took us a while to realize that life ebbs and flows like the tide. It’s a bit like when spring first arrives: You put away your winter coat, drink coffee on your porch and have dinner outside again. Yes, this is how life’s meant to be, you think, with summer on the way. But then it rains again, a new cold wave sets in, you wistfully turn on the heating, and think: What happened? I thought summer was around the corner… We fall for it again and again, every year.

Well that’s how life works, too. You feel happy and think you’ll feel that way forever, until something happens to ruin the mood, or a strangely melancholic feeling settles on you out of nowhere. But it also works the other way around: You might be slipping into a negative spiral, worrying about the people around you, starting the day already tired, not knowing how to get through it. Then, too, it’s hard to remember that it’s not going to stay that way forever. It’s hard sometimes to see it will get better again, more enjoyable again, easier.