Oomph, or rather the lack of it, has long been at the heart of my problem with winter. It's the season when my when my Get-Up-and-Go goes on holiday It's not that I have nothing to do - far from it! - but I can't work up enthusiasm for doing any of it.
But the surprising thing is that it is all OK. I didn't feel guilty, I just didn't do much! I didn't worry about it, I didn't let it get me down. I just listened to familiar audiobooks and did my knitting and enjoyed meals I had previously batch cooked.
I think that my hibernaculum project has "given me permission" to be like this. I don't need to judge myself. I have time to love myself. I can tell myself "This too shall pass" but I don't need to speed it on its way.
I don't know why I wrote about the lack of oomph in the past tense: today is another knitting and audiobook time. Hope you too are having a contented day.
You have the right attitude!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm happy with it.
DeleteDid I catch it from you, or did you give it to me.
ReplyDeleteEither way, it's highly contagious!
DeleteAnother lovely post from your hiberaculum.It’s cold with a biting wind today so my walk was rather short and very brisk! Catriona
ReplyDeleteI seem to think you are in Bonnie Scotland so it's probably rather "fresh" there. I'm stopping inside the hibernaculum!
DeleteMy oomph has got up and gone - hope February isn't quite so grey.
ReplyDeleteSo has mine but , unusually, I feel quite happy about it.
DeleteOomph meter hit empty part way through this week. I've lasted well this year!
ReplyDeleteWell done! Hope the happiness meter didn't hit zero as well.
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