Freshening Up
A Saturday Mirror Reflection
Do you want pancakes or chicken wings?
The best advice I have ever read on the internet is to ask the question, “will this make my life bigger?” And if the answer is yes, go for it. Because ultimately that is what living is.
So I am moving jobs to a place where I will have to learn how to build a book of business. And I will have to learn new office politics and procedures.
All because of one answer. Yes, this choice will make my life bigger.
But not all questions are big.
Part of weighing options and adjusting to change involves limiting my choices in my day to day life.
Because the older you get, the easier it is to align yourself spiritually then to remember what simple foods you actually enjoy eating for lunch.
Because it depends, doesn’t it. Do we even have syrup?
Why does changing jobs feel so big? Why does trying to go on an affordable diet feel equally big? How am I almost 40 and I don’t know the best way to style my hair!?
Because there is no answer. We move forward on yeses and nos. Not routines. So my hair changes and my lunch preferences get oddly expensive and I have to figure it out all over again.
Because pancakes are never going to make my life feel bigger. And we can only get chicken wings if they have falafel. And that’s just a complication none of us need while the kids are sad.
Today is just a reflection of garble and nonsense. Because everything needs cleaned out for summer, even our minds and hair product collections.
The Natasha Hour is Your Place to Start Believing Life Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard. Series on Tuesdays. Reflections on Saturdays.
I love the contrast between the enormous life decision of changing careers and the equally baffling question of what to eat, wear, or do with your hair. Somehow adulthood keeps presenting both with the same level of urgency.
This felt like sitting down with a friend who is sorting through life in real time and finding humor in the messiness of it. Thank you for the smile.
Why not figured out yet on "best way to style my hair"? Because it's not a biggie in the grand scheme of things, because you have bigger fish to fry as the British would say, because you have humans to raise and dreams to achieve. I loved this piece (and now I understand your note about pancakes better 😊) x