What a crazy day! I
love being busy, absolutely love it. I
hate being busy because I have a deadline though and I am right down to the
wire. That stresses me out a bit. FINE…More than a bit. Especially because of someone else’s poor
time management. So, a very big part of
my job (that most people don’t even know I have) is dependent on getting
information from other people. Most of
the times I have to search and find that information myself…again, no problem…if
I have more than a minute to find it. I
am OCD about information, about the piles on my desk, about the piles in my
head. I can handle pressure, and I will
admit I complain about it the whole time…but I can handle it a lot more if that
pressure is brought on by myself or something I have done, instead of that
pressure being brought on to me because I am waiting for information from someone
else.
So with that being said, today was one of those days that I forgot
to the go bathroom. Would have forgotten
to eat had sister no fed me half her soup.
One thing after another…after another… after another. It just kept going, like boiling water.
Have you ever watched a pot of boiling water? I mean, I know “a watched pot never boils”…but
have you ever watched one? It’s a lot of
hard work for the water. And when it
starts increasing in intensity you get excited because a) all its hard work is
paying off, and b) the quicker you can get your food cooked. But then when you put the food in it tapers
off…calms down…to a slow roll and its almost sad…like sorry man, I know you
just hauled it to get to this point and I go a throw a wrench in it so to speak…probably
really just noodles and not a wrench, but just the same. This is how I feel when I am working on
something(s) and it builds…like for a deadline.
I had three deadlines to meet today…all at the same
time. I got them done. With 5 minutes to spare…but I felt like
boiling water all day until 15 minutes till 2!
Pretty much a slow boil all day, and then I reached my, for lack of a
better term, “boiling point” and then, just like that, noodles were added, or
in this case, the work got completed and everything just stopped. Like slamming on the brakes. And I was sad…not because my work was done,
but because it took so much energy to get to that point and then it was just
over. Sometimes life feels like one big
pot of boiling water.
Anyway, I have an amazing weekend planned and have decided
for all the boiling today required, I am going to start early!
P.S. Putting a
lid on a pot of water, will indeed, make it boil faster.
I like your analogy, your writing is very good. Have you thought of doing more besides a blog, because your writing is good and you have a unique style.
ReplyDeleteI have lots of days like that. And, like you said, it is worse when you are waiting on information from someone else. I, too, put pressure on myself, but it is handled much easier. Hope you had pasta for supper.
ReplyDeleteThank you anonymous! I have always wanted to write a book...maybe it will come to me one day!
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