{"id":652,"date":"2025-03-06T13:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gen-e-sis.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/just-keep-turning-up\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:15:54","slug":"just-keep-turning-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/just-keep-turning-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Turning Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"1294\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/just-keep-turning-up\/compass-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/compass.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"533,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"compass\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;An aged, cracked compass labels \u201cLOVE\u201d at the top, \u201cJUSTICE\u201d below, and \u201cstorm zone\u201d to the right. It\u2019s navigation for the emotionally adventurous\u2014where ethics meet weather patterns and every direction comes with a chance of heartbreak or revolution.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;When your moral compass breaks, just head north and hope love isn\u2019t under construction.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/compass-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/compass.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/compass.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/compass.jpg 533w, https:\/\/handelbarweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/compass-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<span class=\"voice-tag\">Emotional Resilience &#038; Soulful Endurance<\/span>\n<div class=\"post-intro\">\n  <p>\n    In a world that worships justice and punishes tenderness, this reflection dares to show up anyway. It\u2019s a meditation on persistence \u2014 not as triumph, but as soulful survival. Through disappointment and quiet defiance, the post traces how love endures where justice corrodes, and how resilience becomes a kind of sacred rebellion.\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I find the word justice to be contemptible. Perhaps this ramble can explain it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suppose you are in love. Perhaps you know them, or perhaps you just know they are out there somewhere. Perhaps you keep turning up. Wherever. But they never show. But you keep turning up. You keep wandering about, fishing for clues, going with your gut. Turning up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well that\u2019s life. That is what life is like for all of us. It\u2019s the business of just turning up again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then suppose one day you wake up and have an epiphany regarding how unfair this all is. How unjust. And so you stop turning up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well that\u2019s justice. It marks the death of a soul and the birth of a victim. If we look back hard enough we can find the places where that die was cast, the first betrayal, the first betrayed. Those clarity-ridden moments when standards got the ok to slip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so you change. You think you are owed stuff. You think you\u2019ve had a bad deal. You got parties to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And once you acquire a taste for justice, you become something else again, something picky, isolating, patronizing and segregating. Something harsh but fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My advice:blame no one, measure no one, just keep turning up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Originally posted 23 Dec 2008. Altered at whim.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon wp-block-embed-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Frequency Effect - Tune In. Turn Up. Let Go.: How to Shift, Amplify, &amp; Hold Your Energy\u2014So Life Responds (The Inner Way Series Book 3)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"678\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_oIhVPcSo0udlCq&#038;asin=B0F73Z5LVN&#038;tag=genesiscom-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world that worships justice and punishes tenderness, this reflection dares to show up anyway. It\u2019s a meditation on persistence \u2014 not as triumph, but as soulful survival. 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