We need a certain amount of time to process our experiences. We need to allow for reflection and consideration. We need to make sense of things, and to decide what we are going to make of them, and how we will integrate the new into our already full lives. What spin will we use on the adventure, the meeting, the person, the day? Will we learn lessons, cop resentments, be self-critical and blaming, be resistant, or be grateful?
Somehow or other, we have to settle what's happened before we can move on. We have to take the time to make our peace.
I allow for the time I need to absorb and integrate the experiences of my life, and do not rush frantically from one thing to the next.
