Over a decade ago, a friend of mine used to say that you have to keep getting emotionally healthier as you get older. He meant it as advice for learning how to cope with life’s difficulties…the complexities of creating an increasingly hectic, modern life. Something to do with escalating job commitments and kids and getting tired of being married to the same person for all those years…that kind of thing. It was good advice.
Today is December 1, 2010, and I find myself having to call upon all the powers of “healthier” that I’ve managed to accumulate over the years. There’s lots to accomplish in a very compressed time, and the desire to crawl into a dark space and let the overwhelmingness overwhelm me is quite…overwhelming.
Of course, I can’t exactly do that. I’ve passed that moment when the critical mass of a situation gets so great that the only choice is action. As is customary in my personal life, I’ve managed to procrastinate to the point that I’m not verging on a low-grade yet still hysterical nervous breakdown. Hyperbole, for sure, but you get the point: no choice but to move now. And I have to move quickly.
Sounds like a bummer, no? Well, I could complain, but that won’t make any of the moving parts move faster. Complaining also won’t cause all my self-inflicted troubles to go away. No, the only real option is to focus…focus and buckle down, as they say. There is work to do, there is a short period in which to do it, and there are people relying on me to do. So, I will do.
Hello, December. Looks like we’ll be heading full steam into the finish line. I just hope there’s something left when it’s all said and done!
Illuminate Possibilities 