A Mantra for When You Feel Like You’re Not Doing Enough
What the pandemic taught me about pausing the Rube Goldberg machine of life
Lately, my brain feels like a full sponge: Nothing else could possibly be absorbed, and most of the stuff already in it is just spilling out. (What a delicious visual, especially if your sponges are anything like the ones in our sink.) And yet my brain often believes it should be doing more.
When the pandemic started, I was irked by the number of people pushing out messaging that this was the time to really dig in and make your dreams happen. Sure, there’s a mysterious and highly contagious virus ripping through our communities, but don’t you want to come out of quarantine with chiseled abs and a finished screenplay? Why don’t you use all this newfound “free time” to start a side hustle or write a novel?
The more time you spend on Instagram, the more certain you become that you are the only person in the world who is struggling right now, the only person who hasn’t figured out a way to optimize their way through…
