Just Juggling

Posted on February 24th, 2007 by gail helen.
Categories: Work, Relationships, Education, Personal, Omnia Vanitas.

I remember how easy everything was when I was younger. Staying up for three days straight, pounding out papers, and living off Snickers bars and Mountain Dew, I felt like I could do anything I put my mind to. But I am just so tired right now. There is this sense of defeat that I am coming to identify as feeling “old,” simply worn out. My hair is going gray, my body hurts, and I’m gaining weight again. Stuff is piling up around me, and I’m barely wading through it in time. It’s just one thing after another — between work, family, and school, there’s just no time for anything else. I know this isn’t an unusal situation, and that there are people out there who have worse things weighing on them. People who have lost their family, never had the chance to gain an education, or have to figure out how to feed themselves, not just pay the tax man. But I just don’t understand how people can go through life like this? I just don’t have the strength for it anymore.

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Comment on February 24th, 2007.

If you talk to anybody slightly older you will realise that many of the same feelings you are going through currently have helped thejm strenthen as humun beings and that each time it requires more and bigger things to bring them the same point.

My own advice is to drop everything for 2 hours and go for a walk or drive in the car and walk somewhere that helps you realise the gifts we have around us if only we had time to see them . You will be suprised at how it helps get the stuff in perspective

gail helen

Comment on February 25th, 2007.

Good advice. I spent a couple of hours at Chuck E Cheese this evening with my nephew, and definitely feel refreshed. Something about a toddler’s laugh just reminds me that the universe must be run by a compassionate force…

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