There have been times when it all gets to be too much…work, school, family, the house, health, and all of those little rocks that weave themselves in between all of that. Recently, I had one of those times of over saturation.
I had just walked into my office and was standing there in front of my desk. Everything that had piled itself on me was suddenly and mysteriously muted by the hum of my tower fan. My feet felt like they were stuck to the floor. I took a deep breath as I looked around the room. All of those inanimate objects just sitting there, quietly and peacefully living out their purpose. I never thought I could be jealous of a wooden plaque.
As much as I wanted to spend a significant amount of time as a statue in the middle of my office instead of a human being, I snapped out of it and carried on. I spent the weekend working on the beginnings of a new approach…at least to the work and health rocks. Making a few small, but significant changes has proven to make things more manageable.
I am working it out, bravely serving a greater purpose than an inanimate object on a shelf. I don’t have to be jealous of wooden plaques, but I can borrow a page from their playbook and stop, turn down the volume of the chaos, and just be for a little while.