Dear Star

Heart versus Head, use both. With empathy you were probably  the kind of  social worker whose your clients felt they were being heard and with your intellect you could help them with solutions.  In buddhism we are encouraged to grow and use both wisdom and compassion equally like two wings of a bird.

I am curious what are you doing in your retirement? Have you found something/s that feeds both sides  of you.

If people did not dream or have vision we would still be living in caves.  For many years I wanted to find a permanent space for our local pop up preschool, I had previously rented a couple of allotments for the children to improve their access to the outdoors. Just this before the end of 2023 with the help of my son’s in laws we have now bought the freehold on a property that we will convert for the use of the community. This was led by my hearts wish and I had dismissed several properties using my head ie wrong location/size/too expensive. Then I bumped into the owner of the property that I had always felt would be ideal and funnily enough he also thought that his resturant-bar  would make a great nursery school so within a month it was ours.

So it is definitely possible to live in harmony,  understanding how you want to live your life & what are you core values also learning how to accept your emotions and how to harness their power and not suppress them in a negative way. I can get a bit gungho with my thoughts & ideas & I have to remind myself to stay open to others thoughts and that they may have a better ideas & a different way of doing something good.

Wishing you all the best on your retirement journey

Roberta