Daily Life

A few weeks ago I wrote a week long menu list for my mother to follow for the week.  She loved it since it allowed her to simply do the task without having to think and be creative.  I was surprised at how much she liked it and wanted me to do it each week. Then I had to start thinking up a menu to last 7 days.  It was a challenge.  Can you imagine the life of stay at home mother’s from the 1950’s?  They had to come up with a menu 356 days a year, year in and year out, for some 18, 20 or 25 years, or until they died!

       Today when a mother hasn’t planned ahead she simply goes for a bucket of KFC or a pizza from a fast food chain.  Life is simpler and yet it is also more dangerous first from the point of view of high cholesterol.  But also, think about this, if there isn’t time for the parents to plan even essential activities then one should take pause and assess why this is so?  From my own recent weeks I can tell you that I have over committed myself every weekend and it doesn’t take me long to burn out.  Two months of go-go-go and I feel unbalanced.  Most people are on the go for years before they even think that there might be something wrong with their pace of living.

       It’s nice to be busy and it’s pleasant to be wanted and have your time spent with friends and activities you enjoy.  Yet every advice specialist will tell you that you should carve out time every week (and preferably every day) for “you time”.  Time to meditate on the day, your psyche, and plans for the morrow.