I started a different post yesterday, that I thought I’d finish today. But instead today has turned out to be a Sigh Day.
A Sigh Day? What’s a sigh day?
Perhaps a quote will help you understand:
“Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn’t any, other stair, quite like, it. I’m not at the bottom, I’m not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn’t up, and isn’t down. It isn’t in the nursery, it isn’t in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn’t really anywhere! It’s somewhere else instead!”
― A.A. Milne
Not helping?
A sigh day is a day when life is neither up nor down. For me it is a day where thoughts fly in, but I cannot catch them. Where beauty catches my eye briefly only to disappear. A sigh day is a day where I can’t quite grasp what I am looking for. Or, as Winnie the Pooh says,
“But it isn’t easy,’ said Pooh. ‘Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh CornerSometimes a sigh is a sad thing.
Sometimes a sigh is a glad thing.
And sometimes a sigh is just a sigh.
Today is a sigh day for me, and I really can’t explain it. So I guess I’ll just go with it and say it out loud
Nov 27, 2011 @ 14:42:48
Happy Sigh Day Lisa!…… and that’s a good sigh….. not a bad or sad sigh…. just so we are clear on that…..
Nov 27, 2011 @ 14:43:46
I’m clear. Happy Sigh Day to you too.
Nov 27, 2011 @ 15:14:30
Happy sigh day!
Nov 27, 2011 @ 16:39:02
Thanks PiP
Nov 27, 2011 @ 15:53:20
Sigh days usually lead to better than average days. So Happy Sigh Day!
Nov 27, 2011 @ 16:38:51
I hope so. Sometimes my sigh days lead to blah days, so I hope that you are right.
Nov 27, 2011 @ 16:43:29
I love the idea of a sigh day. I think we should describe sigh days & what they were supposed to be like!
Nov 27, 2011 @ 16:46:31
Ah, but that’s the problem with sigh days, they elude description.
Nov 27, 2011 @ 19:39:34
I’m having a yawn day. Similar, I think.
Nov 28, 2011 @ 07:36:03
Definitely related.
Nov 27, 2011 @ 20:16:09
I wish my day had been a “sigh day”–mine has been not so terrific, so sighing sounds good about now. Maybe tomorrow will be better!
Kathy
Nov 28, 2011 @ 07:35:50
Oh Kathy, sounds like you had a cry day rather than a sigh day. I hope things get better. I’m around if you need a friend.
Lisa
Nov 28, 2011 @ 05:38:29
Often Sundays are a sigh day so I hide watching films!
Nov 28, 2011 @ 07:35:17
Did that, and they made me sigh even more.
Nov 28, 2011 @ 10:58:39
Last week was a sigh week, now I am in the midst of a sad sigh as I return to work and just want to go back to my hometown and live forever. Alas…I am not there…yet.
Nov 28, 2011 @ 11:47:36
Oh Megan, I’m sorry you are having a hard time. I hope things get better and the sighs turn to sighs of joy.
Nov 28, 2011 @ 12:01:36
I find it is always best to be alone, or nearly alone no sigh days, since even happy sighs are interpreted as rude/cranky. Sighs are much more subtle than that, as you say. To an improving day!
Nov 28, 2011 @ 12:15:47
I made Sarah go on a car ride with Nathan (despite her having a pajama day) for that very reason. Sigh days are private days.