I’m always amazed by what life can teach us. When we’re up, we’re up but when we’re down, it seems life kicks it up a notch and the lesson becomes that much richer.
While I was sick this week, I realized how much I really needed it. Most people wouldn’t pray for sickness, but I think inside I was in dire need of time to rest and recuperate. Instead, getting my blogs up to par, my queries out and articles written seemed way more important than me or my health.
I sacrificed much needed idle time where inspiration is created and sleep for time to write outside of my day job and for what? After a handful of days doing nothing, I got an epiphany when I realized that nothing was loss or gain.
In fact, today while I was still at home recovering I felt sublimely happy and not because I received any accolades, got a great new job, or won me a plum writing contract, but I realized that all of that didn’t matter. All that mattered was that I rested, relaxed and read when I felt like it.
I’m hoping this new lesson will stay with me as my fever dies so that I can bring new appreciation to my life, one that’s not about trying to “make it” in this crazy world of ours. All I know is that feeling unsick is the best feeling ever and if I can remember how important THAT is, everything else will go by the wayside…
