I have, throughout my life, taken on way WAY too much. Always busy with a number of endeavors, with another number of concepts just "out there" into which I have just not actually launched. Ideas flow easily for me, but follow-through not quite so much so. The process is cyclical-the workload and stress builds up and builds up until it explodes and I have a couple days in a row where I'm depressed and pretty much paralyzed into inaction. Then it starts over again.
Anyway, this last time I think the stresses and pressures built up for longer than ever before-duties to school & Lucy, among other things, not allowing me time for the normal crash. It happened finally, though, not long after pulling out of school. And I've actually been in the funk ever since-at least a month. Finally, Sharon advised me to take a month of pure recreation (beyond the usual rigors of parenting, staying on top of finances, housecleaning & so on). No personal projects. No feelings of obligation. More Baldur's Gate. More movie watching. More noodling around on guitar. More excercise. More sitting around in the Lotus position, sipping hot chocolate and reading the City Pages cover to cover. I'm three days in and so far so good. We'll see if I can come out of the month recharged.
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The luckiest guy in the world. His wife tells him not to do jack. You have it made brother.
Relationships shouls allow an understanding of the needs of its participants.
Now if Dan stretches this into a permanent lifestyle, Sharon may have to crack down, but I'm guessing that won't be necessary.
Life is about diversity, and should be about fun, as often as possible. Even our chores should be fun to some degree, otherwise they're soul-sucking drudgery.
I definitely need to do a post on how much I dig my wife. But it's not because she's giving me free reign to be a son of a gun-it's because there's an awful lot of understanding there.
I know T-Clog was joking, but there's definitely some good stuff in The Great One's response. Sharon knows me well enough to know that I am not going to turn into a wife-beating, pot-bellied, lazy dickhead just because she's encouraging me to kick down a bit. She trusts that I will not do anything ultimately not in the best interests of our family. Plus, she realises I've not had enough time for fun recently, and wants that to change.
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