The Life I Should Be Living

 

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Carolina Macedonio Amâncio

 

The morning didn't go as I'd planned.  Neither did yesterday, come to think of it.

A snow day yesterday, kids home from school.  The day looked completely different than the quiet, book-writing, house-cleaning, slow-paced day I'd planned.

This morning, a late bus requiring me to take 4 kids to school, and a neighbor needing a ride.  I hadn't even showered.

 

On the way home, my husband called.  I lamented over the morning, complaining, "I'll be home shortly - yes, fifty minutes after I SHOULD have been home this morning."  He laughed knowingly, because that's what we all do when we complain to one another.  We commiserate in our suffering.

 

But after I hung up, that "should" word kept running around in my thoughts.

 

Sure, I was planning on dropping the kids off at the bus and walking leisurely back home to make a pot of coffee or maybe an iced chai.  But why was I so concerned that what actually happened didn't match what I'd planned in my head?

 

 

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

 - John Lennon

 

I'll admit to still being a bit tense by the time I pulled my car in the garage.  But the simple release of what should be happening opened a bit more space in my thoughts, which opened a bit more space in my body and my being.

It is that space into which I breathe as I type this, releasing again and again my clinging to the life that should be happening and simply living the one that is.

 

Namaste.