How do I slow down and keep from mucking things up?
I’ll be honest. I’m messy, destructive, and quite possibly a tornado pressed into a body. I tend to break things, take actions without thinking, and get caught up in all my chaos.
Today, I woke up, and I went to wipe my glasses. I snapped one of the temples right off. Then, later that day, I decided I wanted to clean up my Itunes and my email. I was given an Itunes card. Excited, I reached for the first sharp object I could find that would eradicate that irritating silvery stuff form my Itunes card so I could use it. I scratched the code right off.
Thinking back on it, I’ve ruined numerous pieces of cheap jewelry that I love, dented a my Macbook Pro, ruined a shirt, spilled too much of my make-up out in my make-up box by knocking it over, and nearly ruined the carpet in my room by spilling some make-up on it…and now I have ruined my glasses and screwed up my Itunes card. I’ve done this all in one semester of school. And while I have managed to wriggle my way out of too horrendous repercussions, (things like protective coverings, choosing to buy CHEAP jewelry, and having decent health insurance have all saved my butt,) I know that one day my destructive tendencies will come back to bite me if I don’t change my ways.
How can I work on slowing down? What can I consciously do to keep myself from moving too fast and making silly mistakes? I know that messing things up can’t always be prevented, but oftentimes it can!
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2 comments
path less travelled on January 1, 2010 at 4:41 am
Make lemonade of your lemons. You have all the material to make a good comedienne — a stand-up comic. ‘Seems clear to me that the more you jot down these escapades on paper, the more you will get a hold on it, because amid each, you reflect before and during.
Sometimes these types of events are linked to anger, suppressed or not. Anger rents holes in the very constitution of a person, often without their knowing this, in which she or he becomes prone to accidents. By jotting things down on paper, curiously enough, you are making a daily journal, which doing in turn inspires you to reflect and curiously, mysteriously helps you to align yourself and actions, and which allows you to discover the why’s and what for’s.
Anger often lies beneath such escapades. Many of the greatest comics took their angers, their follies, their hardships, and salvaged these and in turn brought honesty to bear. In fact, the very best stand-up comics were those who poked fun at themselves and society at large — Rodney Dangerfield, Henny Youngman, Jackie Mabley, Richard Pryor, George Carlin.
Like you, they found themselves to be too often moving too fast and making silly mistakes. Then they took stock in this and somehow coverted these into sheer jewels, which truths every person can identify with. ‘Because we all are in some measure just like you.
diamond on January 1, 2010 at 4:41 am
You sound like my little sister lol jus think before you act and practice being patient before u do stuff.