It has taken me a little bit to put my thoughts together. Life is always chaotic and full of tasks to complete. But in the last couple of weeks, I have been reminiscing on the feeling of getting things done and the sense of accomplishment when you are one step closer to your goals.
For someone who is used to working from a calendar that includes labeling lunch time, brain breaks, and everything in between, when I fall off my clear and organized calendar, I feel lost. I feel like I am not on track because I don’t visually see my character progressing in route to the finish line.
There are days that my weekly to do list is getting crossed out and there is great momentum. And then… stagnant. Everything stays quiet. Honestly, our current administration has us living on edge every single day of our lives and it is overwhelming to think that this is once again our reality for the next four years.
Someone recently said, that it does not always have to be political. And the more I think about it, I can not disagree more. Every breath we take, every conversation we have, every life we touch. Everything is political. Because we are so tired of being on survival mode, of being on call for crisis response, of navigating and balancing ways to thrive, to relax, to keep our characters moving forward in this game called life, when early education programs are at stake and the life of mommies and babies under the age of five, when education as a whole is on the edge of disappearing one program at a time. All of this is personal, and the personal is political.
How we speak, the music we listen to, the environments we create, and the paths we pursue, it is all with the intention we internally are trying to manifest for ourselves and those around us.
Staying still is important. Taking a second to recuperate our inner self, gather our thoughts, all of this is necessary in order to move forward as swiftly as possible.
I often remind myself that as long as we move a tiny step forward, that is more than enough. The collection of little steps, constitute a part of a bigger picture. Little steps is what these last few months have been for me.
For a little bit, I felt stuck. I stopped writing, reading, and working on my personal game plan. But I and we can’t afford all of us being in freeze mode.
So here we are, taking a sip of water, coffee, adult beverage of your choice. We have the fuzzy socks on, orange high lighter, and we are crossing one item form our weekly list one at a time.
