The Gentle Art of Slowing Down

Today started in typical Monday style - all sorts of things needing to be done, some of which were rather time-consuming. I found myself wrestling with getting the video interviews onto my website, unsuccessfully. They are on Youtube, on Facebook, but not - as yet - on my website. Clearly this called for more expertise tha
I have, but that didn’t stop me persevering needlessly.

I think you can see the pattern.

Then I found I had no stamps for my niece’s birthday card - the postal rates have gone up again - and so I prepared to sprint to the post office. As I reached for my keys a quarter fell out of my pocket and began to roll away from me. My first reaction was to scurry after it before it went under some piece of furniture and forced me to dive under a table for it. But then I held myself back. I watched the coin roll away. As it slowed it began to tip, which made it go into a curve. And then it described a graceful ellipse and rolled right back to my foot.

Had I chased it, it would have wound up here anyway, and I’d have probably found myself pushing things around shamelessly, probably muttering things under my breath. Instead it came back, without any extra effort from me. Sometimes more rushing and scrambling is just not necessary.

Lesson taken.