19 March 2012
Things all over the place...
I love it when life shows you just how much you've changed...how far you've come. It can be as simple as misplacing something and the resulting search...
Over the weekend I had that annoying situation of not being able to find something that I'd moved in order not to lose it. Humph.
So I spent most of Saturday on the hunt.
However, instead of getting really mad or whipping myself into a frenzy like I would have in the past, I calmly pulled everything out and went through it. All the while practicing gratitude even as the angst built up inside (I am human, after all).
Why the gratitude? Because the search was giving me a good excuse to go through my stuff and purge a bit...do some much needed Spring cleaning.
I eventually found what I was looking for and was very proud of my accomplishment, even with almost everything I own sitting in piles threatening to trip and or smother me.
Then I gave myself permission to rest before continuing. Thankfully, by the end of the day my place was looking close to normal again. Better than normal because there was less to overwhelm me.
I take comfort in these little victories and lessons about life.
I used to think that life was all about the build-up.
But I suppose there would be nothing to build up if we didn't tear it all down once in a while.
XO