A Letter To Women
Plautus came up with this around 200 B.C. and the idea still lives. Life. It can be so hard. Especially when we follow Plautus’ formula and work to please others while neglecting the care of ourselves.
Plautus came up with this around 200 B.C. and the idea still lives. Life. It can be so hard. Especially when we follow Plautus’ formula and work to please others while neglecting the care of ourselves.
My son loves legos so for every birthday, xmas and just because he gets a lego set. These are not the legos from my childhood in primary colors and 6 basic shapes only! You need an engineering degree for some of these sets. Worse they have 8,763 pieces. 8,762 screws up the entire thing.
What if life is meant to be fun and the one thing stopping our joy is our own thinking? What if the ‘story’ we have about life has been the true robber of our inner peace?
What would it look like if people stopped focusing on looking self important? If we took time to pay attention to and listen to people that could do very little for us? If we showed our children our undivided attention? If no matter how tired we are, we mustered up what little energy we had, for a family member even more tired?
We all have those moments, or periods of time, when we are caught up in the daily grind of life. If we are students, we may have that ever present feeling of needing to study. Recent graduates contemplate their choices and career path. Families are busy with the daily demands of their children’s needs. What happens when we are weighted down with our ever present thoughts, or overall sense of tiredness?