Therapeutic Streamlining...

My parents are both very entrepreneurial types. They both think idleness breeds illness. Both say that people get ill once they retire. Essentially they believe in purpose.

As a teenager I was never empathised with for school holiday boredom. My mum had two responses to "I'm booooooored" one was to give me a chore to do and the other was "only boring people get bored". I stopped saying I was bored.

Be it that they were right all along or be it that that stuff travels through the genetics or be it they raised me like it... They're right. I function far better with purpose. All the mechanics that make me seem to spin around with fewer clunks and clinks when I have just a little less time than I think I need. When I'm spread a little thinner than I'd like I seem to make faster, sturdier decisions.

It's easy to think about all the things that make having one child easier. Money. Time. Energy. This week I'm thinking about one of the things that makes having two easier. Not that I have two (yet) but what I do have is the prospect and with that I'm already having to divide my mind and my priorities.

Though I find this less overwhelming and more rather therapeutic. I find it clears my brain of a lot of unnecessary. I'm thinking clearer. I'm reaching conclusions quicker and making firmer decisions. Making better use of time and energy.

Feels good.

Lesson

Sometimes we expand ourselves to fit. Sometimes that "filler" is hot air.