As I was sitting on the toilet this morning …

Quite often it’s in the most unusual places where some of the best ideas and insights come to me. And it happened again as I was sitting on the toilet this morning. 

It started off with my pondering various activities. They all seemed to have one thing in common: I very, very emphatically disliked them. All of them.

Here are some samples of what I was thinking:

– “I can’t imagine going back to work. I really like the fact that I don’t have to get dressed up every day. I wish I could just stay at home all the time.”
– “I hate the idea of going to the dentist. I’d rather do something fun.”
– “I don’t want to cook today. All that slicing and dicing. So much work.”
– “I need some groceries. But I don’t want to run errands right now.”

Usually, these kinds of thoughts have the power to make me feel really, really bad. But this morning they had me in stitches. I just couldn’t find it in me to take them seriously.

I mean, of course I was unable to see myself going back to work or running errands right now. Because right now (!) none of those things were relevant nor on the agenda. Right now I needed to pee!

That realization made me laugh so hard, I would have peed myself if I hadn’t already been sitting on the you-know-what. 😜 

And it became blatantly obvious to me that I often try the impossible: I try to embrace the unembraceable. I try to embrace something that isn’t even in line to be embraced, respectively something that isn’t even present nor in need to be embraced.

In that particular (intimate) moment (on the toilet) I tried to prepare myself to

– go back to work, which isn’t even a subject for another 3 months.
– see my dentist, although the appointment is still two weeks away.
– cook a meal 4 hours from now.
– run errands later in the day.

No wonder I responded with such an aversion to doing any of those things! They were all set in some more or less distant future. I was waaay ahead of myself instead of focusing on what needed to be done at that very moment. (Which was peeing, in case you forgot … 😆)

Brigitte Schneider
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