Laughter, Tears, Ending Your Day in a Heap of Exhaustion
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."
Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, what is going on, you look amazing. We’re heading down the mountain, base camp tomorrow afternoon, we have a lot of work to do today and tomorrow. Be focused, be aware, be top of mind, and let’s put our best foot forward, finishing out the week. Give me a dap.
It's 7:00 a.m., a little later than usual, I slept in, guilty as charged, we had dinner with some friends last night, a beautiful couple we’ve got to know in Denver, successful, driven, impacting their communities, positively. I’ve sworn off drinking during the week, but I imbibed a little wine last night, I’ll spend my life striving for perfection and allowing an occasional error of my ways.
We talked about family, how sometimes it gets messy, I’ve got my own mess going on right now in my family, it’s time for Dad to put on a cape and try to fix what is broken. Life is not always sunshine and puppies, sometimes the rain clouds move in and the only thing you can do is stand in the pelting rain hiding the tears, falling from your face.
Oh, but I digress, how are you, thank you for stopping by my free internet soup café, I’m cooking something special today, sausage, bacon, a little cream, some carrots, beans, and red pepper. It’s a concoction I made this past weekend; it’s been tested and approved. I hope you enjoy it.
As I type these words, my daughter is cleaning the condo. I find it an odd time to stop, drop, and roll cleaning the condo, but I won’t judge, it’s nice that she is committed to keeping her space clean, we’re now visitors here, just strangers looking for a manger. We have appointments early morning today; it’s why we choose to stay here instead of the mountain house, it’s nice to have living options.
We have a new resident of our condo, Jolene is a black cat, curious, as I was sleeping she bit my face, welcome to the condo Jolene, it’s nice to have your teeth in my skin at 3:32 a.m. Hopefully, in time, she will realize eating human faces is not cool. I’ve had a few cat wounds over my life; I’m sure I’ll have more.
The ladies are heading to an appointment, I’ve got some work I’ve been putting off, but I’ll tend to this morning. We all have projects, things, work that we tend to put on the back burner, today I’m moving that pot to the front of the stove and going to spend a few hours charting the course for my future.
I’ve got a couple of things I’m working on, starting a podcast because I now understand if you are a human, you must have a podcast. Setting up a platform to allow people to purchase stuff from me, thankfully, I have friends that have made the trek before me, no reason to reinvent the wheel.
I’m working on another book, a guidebook for my classes I’m starting in June, I had planned to host ten folks at my mountain retreat, but upon further review, I think a better number is 6 to 8. I’m doing something no human has ever done; I’m creating something from my mind; we shall see how successful I can make this idea. I’m going to pour myself into this project this morning; I’ve got an afternoon of appointments, I carved out this a.m. to move a boulder in my mind.
In addition to my guidebook, I need to assemble my 12th book, a box set of my last four books titled “My 2 Sense”. It will be my second box set; my first was well received, we shall see if I can hit the New York Times bestseller list, I’m joking of course, I have a little aspiration to be a best selling author, I don’t think that gig would fit into my already busy life.
Well, my friend, I have a lot of work to do, I hope you do as well, having nothing to work on is a sin, I think we all need to keep busy, contributing to society using our God-given gifts and tools. It's amazing to me how many people neglect their toolset; they choose to do things not in their wheelhouse, is it neglect or stupidity?
My goal every day is to end the day exhausted, worn out, falling into bed sleeping deeply due to the overspending of my energy. It does not happen every day; the days I still have energy left before bed. I question why the hell I did didn’t burn that fuel; I ask you do the same. You wake with a full tank; your job is to burn that fuel all damn day so, in the end, you fall into bed in a heap of exhaustion using your skills to better the world. That is my mission, that is my want for all my fellow humans, now that you have some soup, get up, get out, and change the world.
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh since there is less cleaning do to do afterward."