MUSINGS and other writing by Mark Kolke

Morning walk:  11C/52F, mostly blue sky, steady cool breeze from the mountains to rustle the tall grasses around the lagoon where Gusta stalked a scent, her slow moving shoulders dropped, like a stalking lioness . . . finding nothing but mosquito swarms.

 

Worn, weary and wary; too many habitual time-consumer tasks, grand plans, bold ideas and dog-hair balls litter your office carpet in serpentine trails of files, slips of paper, things to read, projects and initiatives. Aside from the urgent-must be done today ones, remainder is stalled, on hold, interrupted – lost somewhere between idea and execution.

 

Big ideas, scaled to Weetabix size by reality, or set aside by more demanding events of life can still be big ideas.  If the idea is a project, venture, product, company or edifice of some kind it will follow that – if it is a genuine good idea – someone else will do it. It will get done. Just by someone else. If not, it won’t, in which case you’ll have saved wasting all that time . . .

Can it be different this week?  Should it be?  Did you answer NO? 

 

Easiest answer – possibly best, to avoid change. 

 

Say . . . stay, way you were, way it’s always been, because that’s the way it is - way it was, way it will always be as it was always meant to be, just the way it always was.

 

My daily word calendar brings interesting, often archaic, words to amuse me, tease my brain and educate me on obscure phraseology of long ago.

 

Sometimes a word seems perfect for the here and now, and for me.  

 

Today’s word is HIATUS – means ‘interruption’, in time or continuity, period where something is suspended or interrupted.  Have you thought that?  Not while weekend idyll-ing, but in the throws of a week-freaking busy, chaos and deadline pressure, dead-ends and frazzled nerves of everything and everyone around - like some parable of splitting the sea, so you can walk through to find a better place.

 

What is priority?  Is it clear?   Do we know what makes anything the the most important things, are they reasonably ranked so too much of today doesn’t go wasted on those that never ever matter or amount to anything?

 

How many people will change your life today?

 

Hold your answer.

 

Don’t think about it yet.

 

First, before you answer, try this one: How many people will, at the end of today, say that YOU changed their life today?

 

No hiatus-day today - unless you let it. 

 

Can it be different this week? 

 

Should it be?

 

YES

 

People priorities, too many of them, distract – easy peasey;  to see others’ needs through our own lens of how important it often becomes, to concern ourselves with how we might be seen, thought of, or valued – rather than seeing the key element, all along and the only one worth investing time or energy in, is the value we have and hold in ourselves, our own self worth.

 

Rest is debilitating distraction – that which demands time and focus, but we don’t owe it  that, not for losing sight of who we are, for what is important to keeping us whole and well; worn-weary cliché, to be the best you can be.

 

Mark Kolke

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