Sometimes the road to happiness is unfamiliar
I used the phrase “emotional entrepreneurship” in this morning’s haiku. It came to me quite accidentally, without much conscious thought, but upon thinking about this particular word sequence, it struck me as a good term for the things I’ve been working through. It’s an improvised reference for the risk undertaken in the course of any new interpersonal situation with emotional or personal stakes.
It applies to the shifting sands of my life, from new relationships still engraving themselves into my consciousness to suddenly changing relationships I once thought were etched in granite. Each time one of these alterations starts encroaching on my familiar little life, there’s a period where I can be anything from tentative to downright mournful. The extremity of my response, of course, hinges on the depth of renovations being done or undone – sometimes with the delicacy of a jackhammer.
More than a few of my recent haiku have been crafted toward expressing the nature of said changes, but this is one of the few times I alluded to them in a regular post. (Part of me marvels that I haven’t littered this blog with every single thought I’ve had on the subject.) Sometimes it seems like everything’s at stake, yet I still have very little insight into what it all means.
- NOTE: The title (which was also the prompt) for this post came from a horoscope by Holiday Mathis in the paper a few days ago. Not that I read that much into horoscopes, but they seem to have decent haiku potential.
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