What Do You Do?

What do you do when you don’t know what to do? Or say?  When you are so full of content and meaning and feeling, but there are no words to form nor actions to take? Our words are so important. They are our emissaries to partners, children, co-workers – and therapists. We tell people who we are by what we say and do. But what if you can’t, don’t, won’t? What, then, is the message?

I keep finding myself there. Instead of eloquence – gibberish, babbling, stuttering, frustration and sometimes despair. I want you, the collective you, to know me. Accept me. Respond to me. Love me. How can I achieve that, if I have no words? If I am mired by inaction?

I keep searching. Because I must.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.  -Paul Ricoeur

What do you think?