Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.
PROSE – INTROSPECTION
If you are like me, when reading this prompt, you’re which pearl of wisdom to drop. What insight makes the city today. There are so many to use from. I think it changes depending on what’s happening in a person’s life. I say this because I had a different perspective as I started drafting this post. I think I was going to speak on relationships or something. Yes, I see my notes.
Today, I returned to work after being ill. I’m still not 100 percent, but I’m doing better than before. I sat at my desk, looking at stacks of files, and began to get worried. Immediately, I felt bad for being sick and would never get caught up. I took a deep breath, opened my notebook, and reviewed the items I was working on before I got sick.
I began making a list on my whiteboard and second work brain and saw a message I had left myself.
“Manage your Expectations”
I leaned on the edge of my desk and thought about the message. Then, a coworker stopped by to check on me but really needed to vent about the workload. So, I went into this rant about expectations and managing them.
When we finished, I returned to working on the pile on my desk, but with clarity and a sense of ease. I wished I had learned this when I was younger, but I didn’t. I can’t remember when I discovered it. I’m unsure why I left it as a message to myself. I suppose it doesn’t matter when it comes down to it. It’s what I needed to hear now.
Memoirs of Madness 
I think we are all programed to feel bad about not giving 100 percent, which is really not ok. We are not robots or soulless slugs. We live, we breathe, we get sick. We have lives and are individuals outside of the collective corporation. That doesn’t mean we don’t try hard everyday, it just means that when we are ill, when our day of work is done, then it is time to focus on ourselves, to make us whole and well, even, dare I say, happy? Your topic is interesting as I have been hearing it alot this past couple of weeks. I realized it when I caught COVID a couple of weeks ago and I was apologizing alot about missing work, not helping around the house etc. When in reality, it’s because I was pushing myself so hard and in an environment which allowed me to get exposed that I actually got sick. Seems to me, someone should have been apologizing to me. Or, at the very least, telling me to rest and get better and not worry about the work as it will be there tomorrow. IDK, it is just my thought. I do hope you feel your best soon. OJM
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Well said. Thank you and welcome to my blog.
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