I find myself in a familiar setting which is to say over-extended and overwhelmed. I realize that I don't have kids so I couldn't possibly know the meaning of those words but as much as a single person can understand them, that is where I'm currently residing.
When I get to feeling this way I just tell myself to keep on chugging. Do whatever it is you can do, but do NOT just give up and say to hell with it. Because if you keep chopping away at things little by little you can always get them done. Eventually. I'm generalizing here, obviously. I mean, regardless of how much determination you have, you can't write out the human genome by hand.
But for me, in my tiny little way I can get through it and I will. Little bit here little bit there and hopefully the may irons that I have on the fire will continue to heat up or whatever it is that metaphor is supposed to mean. What the fuck does that mean? Irons in the fire? I should probably google that at some point.
So this post is brief and not incredibly thoughtful but good God I did it anyway. Now I'm off to go rotate the irons, or maybe turn down the temperature, or take them out? Is that how the metaphor resolves? I have no fucking clue. Basically, I'm going to go see if I can bullshit my way through an essay on composers from the Romantic era. Wish me luck!
I find myself wondering why you think the fact that you don't have kids means you don't know what it means to be overwhelmed or over-extended. Just because someone has kids doesn't make your burden or your journey any less. I'm curious as to why you have to put yourself down in order to build others up.
ReplyDeleteAs for the irons in the fire I believe it to mean that you have unforged potentials that have yet to be put to the anvil and pounded into possiblities. Or it can be seen as opportunities that have yet to be forged.
I currently live my life in the state of "how do you eat an elephant?" One bite at a time. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed in whatever situation you find yourself in. But I think you have the right idea of just chopping away at it until it eventually is done. Because even if you start in this lifetime trying to write to a million and you don't finish before you die hopefully you leave a legacy that someone else can pick up and one day it might be done. So proud of you for not giving up you go girl!
Well as we know, you are the queen of staying on to of things no matter how much there is to do. Oh damn, it is about blacksmithing! Okay that makes me like it even more. Maybe I can actually use it properly in the future now.
DeleteOkay reading back on that it sounded sarcastic but that was said completely in earnest!
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