The weekend just flew by. I didn’t get much time to relax this weekend, as my MIL was staying over. And not having some amount of alone time means I don’t feel relaxed. Over the years I have come to appreciate how much I love just having some quiet time. And it’s not just about loving it, but actually needing it to feel my usual self. Without that time, I feel edgy or anxious, and that does not feel good at all.
And for that reason, I am actually welcoming this Monday as back to normality. Some alone time in the afternoon, even if it just working will be good for my soul.
Working hard at the gym with my audiobook being in my own world, and catching a cat nap after lunch, and working away in the kitchen with a good podcast…all things that feel mundane when life is going by on it’s usual course, suddenly feel so precious and welcome, when life has been busier or crazier.
It’s funny how that happens…we crave for the usual things after a little detour on the adventurous side, or novelties.
The same goes for my meals. I eat a certain way Monday to Friday…the same breakfast and lunch, and similar dinners. But weekends we change it up, and enjoy the change immensely. But by Sunday evening, the usual stuff looks great again, and the body craves the move back to healthy and light weekday fare.
Yes, always this back and forth. And that keeps life interesting I guess. From novelty to mundane, and then back to novelty…this endless cycle.
I was craving the back to school season for it’s routines, and work. But I was also loving the summer slowness. I know that by the end of November, the holiday season will look very attractive. But right now, I am just enjoying the space to think and accomplish.
The interesting thing is that most of us already know this. But to actually know this deep in my bones…it has taken me this long to arrive at this knowledge, and to acknowledge it.
And now that I know and accept it, I am ready to work with it. No more drama of calling oneself lazy in the slower times of the year (holidays, summer), but rather to welcome it with open arms, and enjoy every bit of it. And that in turn means, I truly enjoy the work seasons as well…knowing a break will come in it’s time.
For the same reason I welcome my period too. As a teenager and young adult, it was nothing more than a nuisance. But now, it’s a delicious time of the month when I get to give in to eating more treats, and slowing down, and sleeping in…how lovely! I wish I was made aware of how to really enjoy this time as a girl- I feel I wasted all those years trying to get a 5K run by hook or by crook even on Day 1 when I could have just slept in without feeling any guilt.
To know how to enjoy the slow time is definitely a gift of getting older, and wiser hopefully?
And when things get really busy, the sameness and rhythm of the mundane become the slow time…and I get to enjoy that today, on a Monday 🙂