For me, I typically only experience one feeling at a time. H E double hockey sticks yeah, raging red mad. Or sunshine singing at the top of my lungs happy. Or Dopey sleepy fuzzy meh-like. You get the idea. Rarely, I have a mixed dose of both, but I sure did today. And I don’t really like it, as my feelings wouldn’t make up their mind! My feelings are in a full on, nail scratching, ankle biting, hair pulling, tug a war with themselves.
Wikipedia defines tug a war as “a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength”. Exactly! Team Sad and Team Happy going at it— flexing their bicep power.
Today, my husband and I dropped off our son at the airport to begin his dream career journey in Silicon Valley. This is where the sad and happy tug a war kicked in. Obviously, crazy over the top happy for this hard-working kid to be on his life way and then obviously crazy sad as I know this is where one of my all-time favourite life chapters comes to an end.
At this point, I am still letting Team Sad and Team Happy duke it out, thinking that they will just come out as a tie with minimal bruising.
I know I am not alone in this picture as I hear stories of kids heading back to university in other countries far, far away from their families. Or people starting the new year making job changes that is taking them away from their hometown and their friends.
Anyone else kicking off 2023 with a sad & happy tug a war?
Photo: Vancouver International Airport