Tongxin Post 7. Life is….

答案其一: 生活不只是眼前的苟且，还有诗和远方。---高晓松

One of the answers: Life is not a trap, but also a journey with poems. (Translated by 沈柠乐 in zhihu.com)

When clients sit in front of me, they often view their life to be a trap. They do not know where to go; they suspect whether there is a better way to go. In Narrative therapy, the counsellor needs to be mindful of the client’s values, interests and the glimpse of hopes in his/her life. In other words, we need to remind them that there is always a preferred road ahead already existing in the client’s heart that could take him/her to his/her life journey.

If we are in a boat, we should not forget that we are also on the river. Boat represents the imagined trap, and the river represents life. If we only see the boat, we are confined to the boat. But if we focus on the river, there will be so many possibilities ahead. Switching the mind, and we can see a journey instead of a trap.