Every once in a while, life seems to throw out a curve ball you don’t expect and the next thing you know your carefully laid out plans are thrown out the window in favor of where the curve ball lands. Sometimes these new directions are wonderful and lead you down unexpected and decidedly delightful paths that bring laughter, fun, enjoyment, and basically all the good things life offers. But…sometimes they don’t.
If anyone was wondering why I haven’t posted for basically the entire month of April, it is because life threw out one of those curve balls and the month has been spent in dr offices, testing clinics, or hospitals. Everything is fine. I am ok. But I had to spend a month figuring out what the heck happened. I tell people now that my body was due for its 100,000-mile check-up and aside from needing a couple tweaks, I am fine. I also know that I am very symptomatic when my blood pressure is high and am now on meds to control it. Hopefully.
The episode did bring to focus just how one simple (or not so simple) thing can send your day, week, month, even year, down a very different path that you had planned. I had a doctor appointment today, unrelated to everything April, and on my way home, there was a car accident, no one appeared hurt, but for the drivers of those three cars, their day just went sideways. And I am sure you all can think of many ways when your lives when sideways!
For me, I have learned to be pretty flexible when it comes to my days. I have learned that holding tightly to my schedule rarely works well for me. I have learned to set aside my agenda for what needs to happen. Most of the time, it doesn’t set my plans back. But then there was April and all my plans were changed to focus on something else entirely. Interestingly, in the midst of everything, I found myself enjoying the slower pace. Maybe I need to pay attention to that! And maybe that is the thing, when life goes sideways there is something to learn from the new direction. Something that maybe we can apply to our life when things get back to normal. Whatever normal is.
Peace,
Beth
BTW…I didn’t do any posting for March either but that is just me not having anything to say.
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