Mar 19 2009
Slow Your Roll
On Monday, I returned from a vacation where I did nothing but wander aimlessly, sun myself, and eat ridiculous food/quantities. I can honestly say that I did not once think about work - well I guess there was one time and it was during our decent Monday morning when I was paralyzed with the thought that I would need to return to work. But, all in all, I really slowed down. Everyone says you must slow down. Slow down: life goes by too fast so you have to savor the moments. Slow down: it takes the body 30 minutes to feel full so take small bites. Etc. Slowing down has always been a problem for me. I mean don’t get me wrong - I am rather lazy. But, my mind is going a mile a minute. I have trouble appreciating the moment because I am fastforwarding in my mind to five, ten, twenty years down the road. And, big surprise, I eat WAY too fast. I have tried to slow myself down but I fail at the attempt. When I was younger, I insisted on eating with the sample spoon they gave out at 31 Flavors. Using the tiny utensil did slow down my eating, but it became too slow (i.e. at the correct rate) so I tossed the sample spoon in favor of a gravy spoon (this may reveal my lack of knowledge of utensils - aren’t gravy spoons big? I mean you want to get a good coating of meat goop). So now the challenge is to translate my ability to slow my mind on vacation to the ability to do the same when I am living my every day life. Hmm, but how? (Searching my mind for 1, 2, 3, 4, . . . 10). I give up. Off to work.
