Some Moments to Exhale, To Notice
OK. They picked up Luna. I don't have to worry about feeding her twice a day, taking her out multiple times, and all the other things that went along with caring for her.
With everything else that happened this week, that I had to do and go through this week, I deserve to exhale and notice the exhalation. I have earned the right to exhale slowly and move slowly at this point in time.
I have to do this deliberately so that I avoid the trap of rushing through it. I have rushed through before. Let's paint that picture. So many times in the past, I had been waiting for something to end or to be completed, just so that I could exhale, looking forward with immense excitement and joy to that moment when I could exhale. And then it would reach, I would rush through, quickly moving on to the next thing.
Not this evening. I am allowing myself to exhale, to notice the exhalation, and to move slowly in it. This is good. This is very good.