Dear Life: Thank you for the frenzied phases you sometimes love to shower upon us! While you are busy adding layer after layer of priorities and activities and things to check off, we are running around in our crazy human way- juggling, catching this and dropping that, fixing something here and then jumping off there. In all this happy (and something not) energy wave, there are times when we (figuratively speaking) forget to breathe! it's as though we are holding our breath constantly-waiting for that final climax scene in a movie.
So Dear Life-when we are finally done with all those layers, we allow ourselves, for one sweet moment, to EXHALE. at least till the next time the breathless, running-as-fast-as-i-can feeling comes back again.
A friend recently apologized for not keeping her promise to call me three weekends ago because she's 'losing her mind' with relatives and kids swarming in her house the last few weeks. I hope she gets to exhale soon!
Another friend recently moved to a new city, took a new job and is trying to ramp up on both at break neck speed. and yet another friend did all of that, plus bought a new house, a new puppy and her spouse is currently living in another country.
As for me: Ihave been on the verge of a big change and actively working towards it for a while now in parallel to everything else that i have on my plate, so now that all the actions that i needed to take are done, i can sit back and exhale, treat myself to quiet time till it all starts up again.
I cannot explain how good it feels to exhale. However transient this moment, it's magical: this sudden rush of relief, mixed with some satisfaction of having got through 'something'. however small or big it may be. I spent my evening having what i call a 'happy headache': all that energy suddenly whittling down to a moment of quiet is so drastic that it may leave you with a veritable headache, but its a happy one!
I have been reading this wonderful book called The Happiness Project, and the author talks about being happy in the context of " thinking about what feels good, what feels bad, what feels right, in an atmosphere of growth". How true! What would we be without the excitement in life that allows us to grow.
Dear Life- i know the next drama (a.k.a growth opportunity) isnt far away but till then-i am busy exhaling. And just being!
2 comments:
The nut waiting to exhale..is not very thrilled with "dear life' at the moment..and hence dont like the polite tone u are using for life :D
Nicely put babe
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