“It finally did. I did not have some beautiful Hallmark moment when I threw back my shoulders with a big smile, dusted off my hands, and got back to work… It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what’s keeping things running right. We’re bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they’re not needed hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grace the fleck of river weed, notice how beautifully your legs scull….”
—-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird p. 180-181
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All the rules… yes. I do that. And then drop the rules, but they come back. Coming and go, like much else in life. Wonderful quote. Thanks for sharing it. 🙂
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Like Robin, I give up on control and then control slips back and then it’s released again and who knows what will happen next? Thanks for this post.
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