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Sorting Through The Pile

Writer's picture: Michelle L. SmithMichelle L. Smith

It was flashing at me.


The panel on the microwave.


"End" in digital letters. Over and over again.


I opened it slowly, wondering what I had started warming up and forgot about.


Turns out it was my coffee. From 10 a.m. that morning.


You might not be able to read it in the picture very well, but the clock on the microwave says 5:39 p.m.


I had to laugh.


I'm not the only person in my family who warms up their coffee and forgets about it. I won't name names, but they know who they are...


Seems to be a theme with me lately, getting distracted and forgetting about stuff. Trying to bounce between too many things at once and not really being present with any of them.


Like the other night when I spent 10 minutes looking for my glasses and the entire time they were on top of my head.


I'm guessing that many of you reading this can relate.


We go through life trying to keep all the balls in the air.


When we are young, there aren't that many balls to juggle. School, friends, sports, maybe a part-time job.


As we get older, more and more balls are flying through the air at us. Parenting, relationships, work, finances, medical stuff - it gets to be a lot.


If the balls are coming one at a time, it's not that hard to deal with. We can stop each one before the next one hits us in the face.


But they don't come one at a time.


They come one right after the other, and the pace speeds up as we go through life.


All of a sudden, it can feel like those balls are coming from every angle and we are just getting hit in the head, over and over again.


Not much fun.


Ironically, when we try to deal with all of the balls at once, constantly diverting our attention from one to the next, it's a lot harder to deal well with any of them.


A good friend gave me some excellent advice yesterday. She said all we have to do is handle the next thing that comes at us, not everything at once.


We need to narrow our focus so we can be thoughtful and present and sit in each situation so we actually work through it.


I'm guilty sometimes of just deflecting those balls.


Punting them into the corner and moving on, without actually feeling or processing what was coming at me.


I'll get to that later. And that one. And that one.


Until there's a big pile of sh*t and everything is all mucked up together and even harder to deal with.


That's when I start forgetting about my coffee in the microwave. Or the glasses on top of my head.


Ah the irony.


When I need to be able to see clearly, I can't find the things that help me do that.


I talk a lot in this blog about making time to sit and reflect.


Think it's time to take more of my own advice.


If you need me, I'll be in the corner sorting through that pile.


Right after I warm up my coffee ☕



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