This is how it manifests.
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in
the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it needs
washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on
the front porch table that I brought up from the mailbox
earlier.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the
trash basket beside the table, and notice the trash basket
is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table
and take out the trash first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mail
box anyway (and the mailman picks up the mail at noon) I
may as well pay the bills first. So I take my check book
off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left. My
spare check book is in my desk in the study, so I go
inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke
I'd been drinking earlier this morning.
I know I am going to look for my check book, but
first I need to push the Coke can aside so that I don't
accidently knock it over. The Coke is warm, so I decide to
put it in the refridgerator to make it cold again. As I
head toward the kitchen with the can of Coke, a vase of
flowers on the dining room table catches my eye....they
need water.
I put the Coke on the dining room table and
discover my reading glasses that I have been searching for
all morning. I decide I better put them back on my desk,
but first I'm going to put more water in the flowers. I
set the glasses back down on the table, go to the kitchen
sink to get a jug and fill it with water and suddenly spot
the TV remote on the window sill. Someone left it there.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,
I'll be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that
it is on the window sill, so I decide to put it back in
the living room where it belongs, but first I'll water the
flowers. I pour some water in the jug, but spill some on
the floor. So I set the remote back on the kitchen table,
get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then, I head down
the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
-the garden is still dry
-the car isn't washed
-the garbage hasn't been taken out
-the checks aren't written for bills
-there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the table
-there is still only one check in my check book
-the flowers don't have enough water
-I can't find my glasses
-I can't find the remote
-and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done
today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all
day, and I'm really tired now.
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THEREPEUTIC
Pretty cool huh...
with love and Joy
John
- Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 07:38:27 (PST)
Author: jjnk@bellsouth.net |
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