After your big event

What really happens / Issue 1,152

Oh, hi friends!

So this always happens. 

There’s the big high! 

The launch, the interview, the debut, the race, the publication, the presentation, the reading, the sprint.

It's go-go-go to get it done.

You do it.

It’s great. It’s the big high! You’re so glad it finally happened.

Then what?

Well…

I hit the opposite of go-go-go — the slow–slow-slow.

The first time this happened, back in 2013 after I ran my first marathon, I embraced calling it the "post-marathon blues." 

But the more it's happened — after any major event with weeks or months of prep and preamble — I don't want to call it the blues.

The pendulum always comes back to center.

The see-saw eventually stills.

And that's normal.

To feel the highs, we have to experience a lot of ordinary days. And slow days.

That's not the blues.

I think that's life?

So that's where I am! Kind of resting, kind of bopping, kind of existing.

Just wanted to share, with the mild hope that you might understand, or feel on one side or the other right now. Or perhaps the steady middle. 

How wonderful, though.

We get to experience it all.