Mid-Atlantic Gardening: New Year resolutions (in the garden) what are yours?, 1 by Gitagal
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Gitagal wrote: Not to be a spoilsport-----BUT--I will be! I do not make resolutions of any kind....NEVER!....It just adds another level of "must do" to my life. My life is full of "musts" and "shoulds" as I have grown older--and my energy levels have decreased. it can become a burden. IF I make promises to myself (resolutions) and then do not have time, or I do not fee like doing it---I feel like I have, somehow, failed. I do not like feeling that I have failed. I am like the Energizer Bunny......go...go...go... but, I can only go...go...go..that far. Then I want to rest and do something else---more relaxing.... I have reached that stage in my life where just sitting and watching TV, as I knit or do something creative, is all that satisfies me. Of course--the "musts" and "shoulds" never goes away. They always hang over my head and bother me. I KNOW that I will never achieve all the things I want to finish and accomplish before I am "gone". That saddens me a lot......as all the things I have created, but not finished, no one else can finish. They are all MINE! Made out of my mind and creation. And--they are lots and lots of craft projects... This lays heavy on my mind--every single day. Yet--I have all this free time--and I sit here on DG---or I sit in my kitchen and do this and that--or--cooking something seems to be the best excuse for me not to do anything else.... All I can say is that, as you get "up there" in age--(I will be 75 in a couple of weeks) doing what relaxes you takes priority. Having to do what you MUST do--seems so easily avoidable--if you find the right excuse....just create another "priority"..... I am a person that never breaks promises. IF I say I will do something--I will do it. This also means "promises" I make to myself (resolutions). SO! I don't do it!!! Life is too short to stress out about "shoulds". Just do what you enjoy doing----the rest will fall into line sooner or later. Ahhhh.....It felt so good to put all this in writing. Gita |