It's been a while since I posted. Sorry about that. Once again, the summer has flown by. We seem to have been consumed with projects. One right after the other with no time in between. We did finally get to take a long weekend to the lake. Which was just what we needed.
The weird part about that is that we were stressing out about it leading up to the trip. Getting ready, doing this and that, traveling. My brain was lying to me and saying that it was to much trouble. Funny, when we got there it was exactly the thing we needed. We relaxed, if just for a few days. We didn't work on projects. We let you batteries recharge.
I needed it. Life has been hectic.
I think we all suffer from the same thing every once in a while. We get so wound up in what we are doing we forget to step back and give ourselves a little space. We forget that life isn't all about work, sometimes it's simply about leaning back and enjoying the view.
I need to work on that. I need to be able to step back, look at my life as a whole, and see what's really important. I get buried in what I'm doing, and that's not a good way to live life. You need to have a balance where you can get into the weeds, but you can also step back and look up. See the actual forest, not just the trees.
I think I've known this since I was young. But it's easy to forget these things when you think life has to be a certain way. When you see the image of what you are expected to be as a man, father, husband. It's an image I only have for myself oddly enough. Other people don't put those expectations on me. I put them on myself.
I'm going to try to use this as a wake up call of sorts. To give myself a little space to enjoy life a little more and try to worry a little less. And to attempt to break the shackles of the expectations I put on myself as a younger man.
Maybe I can grow a little young again.
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