After a drop in mood, I took a step back to think about a mental model that has been helping me navigate the ups and downs of life and emotions. "Use the mood" is the phrase I've been playing around with to help me make the most of whatever mood or circumstance I find myself in.
The C.S. Lewis quote:
"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own’, or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life - the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one’s ‘real life’ is a phantom of one’s own imagination."
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