It Sucks – To Be Free
One of the constants in my life is the amount of energy that
goes in to managing stuff that sucks.
In the old days I’d skirt around it and offset it with
things that didn’t suck but the constant awareness of having to go back to it at some point took a lot of energy.
Be it clients, contractors, permitting authorities , vendors
_____________ (fill in the blank) sometimes stuff just sucked big time and I’d
eventually have to look at it and “deal with it” by either the head on assault –
flanking maneuver – or in rare cases retreat.
Sailing, Travel, Fine Dining, Music and Art soften suck-i-ness
slightly but the knowledge of a fraction of residual suck-i-ness tainted even these
pleasures.
Positive thinking didn’t seem to help in the long run.
Spiritual principals help a bit but not fully and communication with other
humans offered varied opinions and views on things that sucked even worse – or not
that bad depending on the person offering the input. Rationalization and Resignation seem to be the key weapons used to
combat suck-i-ness. Regardless of all the “mind games” the suck-i stuff
remained. Until yesterday.
Edy and I were driving and had had a long conversation about
respective areas that sucked. We were stuck in 50 miles of holiday gridlock and
had just left an warm visit with people we love dearly and were heading back
into “life as we know it” – Dark clouds of suck-dom descended and in a very
short time we were deep in the storm. The usual weaponry was useless and after
a few hours Edy simply said “can we agree that this sucks” , we’re on a sinking
ship in the Antarctic , in the water ,
freezing, no land insight, waves battering us and drowning …….It took me a very long time to realize what she was saying.
”Yes” I finally said, “This sucks big-time and worse than that, I have no clue what to
do now”.
It was then I felt us
both being lifted into the rescue chopper.
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