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In the hurriedness and harriedness of life, we somehow tend to normalize and rationalize our crazy activities and work schedules along with high-stress levels. Sometimes we equate busyness with productivity and our clear-cut exhaustion makes us think that our ‘busyness,’ not simply being active mind you, is a good and healthy thing. But it’s like an adrenaline rush, and then you find yourself immobilized in an uncontrollable crash landing.
Sometimes the hurriedness and harriedness of others spill over onto our plates, burdening us with their tribulations, and making us think we are helping them when ‘we’ are really hurting ourselves. This is not to say we shouldn’t help others with a heavy burden, because we should exude the type of humanity to help shift the weight that could cause an overturn on the balance beam of life. Yet, we have to be careful about absorbing the impact of heavy loads of others that can take us out and leave us sidelined with permanent mental, physical, and spiritual injuries.
Some situations are not preventable, particularly incapacitating and caretaking situations. This is not what I am talking about. I am speaking about those things that are preventable and inessential. All too often we stand in the spot where the dump truck begins to tilt its bed and unload its contents. It’s easy to become disconcerted, discouraged, and drained when you feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your back. Suddenly, we can find ourselves overwhelmed and suffocating under a pile of rubbish that we should have dumped long ago, rubbish that never belonged to us in the first place.
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Source: The Hurriedness and Harriedness | From Behind the Pen
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