Just don't feel like workin'
"I've got plenty to do at home, but I'm sick of it all." I agree! The words rang so true, from the lips of the lady next to me at the Blood Drive, that I casually wrote them on the back of a WalMart receipt. She was a wonderful chatterbox. She confessed that retirement was too much work, so she returned to Work. She told me she didn't care for the chores she had at home. She could keep busy there, but simply didn't feel like it.
Man, can I relate! Every day, my mind flips through tasks like cards in a deck. Laundry...dishes....shop...clean....pay...wash...fold....repeat! Flip, flip, flip.
Nope, don't feel like doing ANY of those things. My dear friend Amy used to say she'd come visiting to "flee the scene of my own life." Yup, that sounds just about right.
Life can just be so darn daily and exhausting. Especially the "repeat" part. Is it even worth it? Replace a toilet paper roll, but it won't be the last time. Buy milk so often, you price out a cow and find it'd be a bargain. Dust bunnies reproduce overnight in a suspiciously fertile way. It's enough to make a grown woman cry.
Yet tonight I heard another quote, and it lifted me up. "The work of a home is love made visible." Love made visible. Now that sounds downright inspiring. Important. Life-changing.
It's okay to be tired, just don't give up. Push on, even though you don't feel like it. And take heart knowing you are not alone. Most of us don't feel like it, either. And that's okay.
PS. As I was getting ready to post this, I spilled a someone's half-full Diet Root Beer in the family room. Of course it spilled stickily on the carpet that we just paid hundreds of dollars to Stanley Steamer for cleaning. Don't get weary, Martie, don't get weary!
Galatians 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
2 comments:
I hear you on this one. I gave up a good paying career to stay home with my kids. There are days when I wonder why? To attend to endless laundry, dishes, and picking up messes? I often wonder is this all there is? And then try to remind myself, as you mention, to not grow weary, to focus on the precious moments and times of laughter.
I would like to caution you on buying that milk cow. I live on a dairy farm. A cow would be a definite "repeat" item. It would have to be fed everyday as well as milked everyday and that would be on every single day of the year! Talk about "flip, flip, flip"--taking care of a cow would definitely be that.
Thanks for reminding me that I'm not the only one who struggles with this.
Susan Z.
You know, when my kids were small I used to think "Is this all there is?" and I used to get really tired of taking care of everyone's wants and needs and running here and there. Now I would gladly go back there. Hindsight is amazing isn't it! I now look at life, as I am all alone and my children are grown and have their own lives and my Jimmy has gone to be with the Lord and think "Is this all there is?" What's next? It's funny how life leaves you feeling like "Just don't feel like doin' it!" I guess we all , depending on where we are in the circle of life, have the same struggles just in different circumstances. Thanks for always having the ability to express such great insights about how we all seem to feel.
Blessings! Linda L.
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