“Brazilian bikini wax is a must!!!”
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
There are times in life when we are reminded of the short to medium term goal that we set for ourselves sometime ago. You know, the one that we scribbled with that blue inked Papermate in the dog eared 2001 faded leatherette corporate daily planner. The one we reviewed every time the going got rough at our cluttered desk and we told ourselves that we were tell that being exactly where they can stuff those TPS reports.
*Join gym. Drink more water. Quit smoking. Stress less. Smile more. Start diet. Make time for kids. Find wifey. Make time for parents. Date night with Kim. Be more assertive. Get tattoo. Travel. Choose better men. Break up with Stacey. Learn Japanese. Eat healthier. Start business. Enroll in dance class. Take Mo’ Mo’ up on that offer. Start garden. Party more. Drink less. Learn the guitar. Put that damn cookie down. Quit job… now.*
Then there are the days when we are b!tchslapped by said plan; when something has either occurred or has been said and we realize that this right here… THAT AIN’T IT!”.
The “AHA!” moment.
Yesterday was one of those days.
You navigate life, trying to make the best choices that you can. Work Hard. Work Smart. You walk that fine line where you do the best you can to live in the moment without living it up so much that you are incoherent when it passes you by and trying not to take yourself too seriously that [what-the-what!] you have no idea what just happened.
~ Martin got married?
~ Shelly has a 2 year old?
~ Kate died?
~ Wait…. is Martin divorced?… I thought he just got married?
The thing is, apart from the fact that everyone else may think you are living in oblivion, you are fine. You’ve figured out exactly how to maintain the equilibrium, exactly how to keep the balance in your life, while precariously maintaining the status quo and you’ve found your flow, you are groooooooving baby. You find an appropriate way to channel the negativity (no judgements cast here) you may come into contact with and rock to the positive vibes you, and the handful of ones you allow in your life, generate. You’ve figured out that certain things in your life need to be tweaked yes but in due course, for in the grand scheme of things, hey it’s not so shabby.
Then somewhere in your bliss some special individual unknowingly says something that puts it all into perspective. You realize that people aren’t really taking you as seriously as you thought… and you are left wondering why you are the only person who believe that they should. The fog diffuses and suddenly the dance floor in the utopia that you were just doing the stanky legg (or robot, your choice) in is not only arid and patchy but it smells frowsy.
“Where am I… and how did I get here?” you wonder, absolutely positively stupefied.
You dig deep, trying to keep the pressurized container in tact, and maintain a calm while you tell yourself that this right here is not your life. You phase in and out of consciousness for a minute and, in the clearing of the pulsating blurr, the overwritten scribble in the dog eared 2001 leatherette corporate daily planner comes into view.
*Join gym. Drink more water. Quit smoking. Stress less. Smile more. Start diet. Make time for kids. Find wifey. Make time for parents. Date night with Kim. Be more assertive. Get tattoo. Travel. Choose better men. Break up with Stacey. Learn Japanese. Eat healthier. Start business. Enroll in dance class. Take Mo’ Mo’ up on that offer. Start garden. Party more. Drink less. Learn the guitar. Put that damn cookie down. Quit job… now.*
And then you get it.
The light turns on and it all makes sense and you make that first step.
The one that tells you that you don’t have to get it right, but that at the very least, you owe it to yourself to just get that goal up and running.
“AHA!”
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I like this one.
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Thanks Karen.
You’ve posted the very first comment.
I appreciate the feedback.
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Interesting. Embodies how I feel at the moment. Well said and good attention getter for an article:D
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Thanks Sasha-Marie!
It was one of those posts where you have an idea of what you were going to say so you wrote the title first. Then in developing it you decide to give the essence rather than the details!
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