Hi frens,
I’m writing this while running on fumes energetically. I’ve had to travel all over in the past two weeks for my sister’s bachelorette party and am now having to tackle things I abandoned because I ‘didn’t feel like doing it’ in the moment. Even right now, I’m shaking my head as I’m coming to terms with having to eventually face the consequences of my own actions. I feel like this chapter of my life is accepting my past self’s ignorance (as shown below):
This is a photo of my living room floor in LA. I was painting the wall and decided that I didn’t need a drop cloth or that I would ‘deal with it later’. After hours of scraping and scrubbing with a toothbrush, I have learned the lesson to do proper prep work. I’ll actually be spending most of March and all of April in LA cleaning up the messes I made for myself over the years which I turned a blind eye to when I moved to the desert.
Side note: If you’re ever in need of removing dried paint, I use Krud Kutter for everything.
I’m also learning to slow down on decision making. I have lived the majority of my life in a stressful state of constant doing, worrying, thinking, planning, etc. I find myself pulling the trigger far too soon and acting on impulse or from emotion. When my life gets too hectic to try and compute or figure out, I have no other option than to surrender and ride the wave of change. I am reminded that I can only control so much, and I won’t be figuring out solutions to every active problem in my life in one sitting.
The conversations I’ve been having lately with my friends have centered around the theme of taking it a day at a time. A shared experience it seems with my group of close connections is that there are a lot of transitions happening in all of our lives. So many questions of what to do about x thing and being pulled in so many different directions that we find ourselves frozen with indecision and overwhelm.
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