Today
Today –
I was speaking with a friend this week who is incredibly busy. So busy it seems things that need to get done will never get accomplished. As we spoke I heard the hurry in their voice. “I’ve got to do this, then that, then the next!” Simply listening made me tired. I know the feeling of having too much stuff to get done and that all the time in the world doesn’t seem enough. I also know when I feel like that, take on that burden, I am stepping out of mindfulness and stillness. I am allowing the world and its chaotic rhythm sweep me away to a place where I don’t belong.
After my friend’s list was given I told them it sounded like they needed a nap, a time of stillness and letting go of lists, chores, to-do’s and embracing a still and mellow attitude. “Things will get done,’ I told my friend, ‘do what you can and leave what you can’t. Eventually, all the important stuff will be taken care of and all the rest? Who cares.”
If we aren’t careful we can fill our lives with so much to do that nothing gets done, not even living.
blessings,
@BrianLoging (Twitter)
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Posted on December 19, 2017, in Mindfulness and tagged #accomplished, #allowing, #Attitude, #belong, #blessings, #burden, #busy, #careful, #chaotic, #chores, #dowhatyoucan, #embracing, #enough, #eventually, #feeling, #fillourlives, #friend, #friends, #getdone, #given, #heard, #hurry, #important, #incredibly, #know, #leave, #lettinggo, #list, #listening, #lists, #living, #mellow, #nap, #need, #needed, #nothing, #rest, #rhythm, #simply, #Sobusy, #sounded, #speaking, #spoke, #stepping, #still, #stuff, #sweep, #tired, #to-do's, #today, #toomuch, #voice, #Whocares, mindfulness, Stillness, World. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Essentialist 
This is so true. Thank you for sharing this reality, which many times we just ignore!
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