I slipped on the ice (dot 3864) trying to get the newspaper and fell down on the frozen grass. It wasn’t serious but I felt discombobulated and jostled from the unnatural trajectory that my body took so I decided to follow the precautions and rest for a bit before jumping into my day.
Do you know that it is very hard to be in that limbo state of “rest” without doing something or falling asleep? True rest means not reading, watching television, or looking at screens. When I sat there and did that, the natural temptation was to doze off — thus morphing from rest to sleep which is another thing entirely. Maintaining that balance to just stay at rest is actually difficult (for me anyway).
I wonder how many other ways we ask people to work within narrow parameters that are harder to meet than they sound. We’re told to do our physical therapy exercises, but not too many of them. Keep an emergency fund of accessible assets but don’t leave too much in liquid investments. Spend time with friends and family but don’t jeopardize your career growth by doing so.
The ideas of balance or rest sound wonderful until you try to put them into practice — then they feel hard to achieve. Don’t beat yourself up unnecessarily when you are challenged in doing something that sounds like it should be simple. Maintaining balance on ice or in life isn’t easy.
