Winnie Lim

I was writing in my journal this morning on the concept of storing energy – something I’d learnt from reading Robert A Johnson‘s biography – so I thought I’ll document and share it here:

I guess I’ve written quite a few posts about getting as much out of life as possible before having to face inevitable suffering in life, but this is the first time I’ve seen this articulated in this manner.

As a chronically ill person I am very familiar with the concept of storing energy, because I have to store up energy for multiple days in a row in order to do what normal people can do every day. I’ve also been semi-consciously storing psychological energy up sometimes almost being Peter Pan like so I can have some emotional buffer when shit happens.

Chronically ill or not, I do think it is important to always have some buffer instead of what he says – always mortgaging our energy into the future. We only think this way about money and fail to protect one of our most important resources: our energy. And when we think about energy we associate it with physical energy, without realising the impetus to do significant things require more of psychological energy.

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