Out of the Ditch

I have to admit that I am feeling a little smug right now. The kids are in bed. Steve is in Toronto working to plug our new website, Kuzuka.com. I have a kettle heating up some water for tea and there is a piece of biscotti with my name on it. Most importantly, my dishes are done, the counters are wiped, laundry is folded, and I am officially BACK ON THE WAGON!!!!! Woohooooo!

It is times like this that I wonder, ‘Why did I ever fall off in the first place??????‘

Why does it seem to be hardwired in the human psyche that we sabotage our best efforts? All of us have bad habits that we attempt to overcome. Whether it is weight, procrastination, alcohol, overspending, or in my case- clutter, everyone I know has made an attempt to improve their lives by doing what they know is best for them. We all have experienced the high of accomplishment. Of having life run so smoothly we just know this is how it is supposed to be. We’ve all thought ‘This is easy’ and wondered what kept us from doing that in the first place…And we have all fallen off the wagon and struggled to get ourselves back on it.  Then we hop on only to do it all over again.

Why do we put ourselves on this crazy cycle over and over and over again? Since it seems to be such a universal phenonmenon (at least according to my informal observational research), I guess it is part of how we were made. Maybe life would be too boring if we were always on top. Maybe we need depths to sink to in order to have the motivation to rise up even higher.

Who knows?

And who knows how long my home will remain clean and organized? I sure don’t (although I will give it my best effort). What I do know as I sit here and take a sip of my tea is that I should relax and enjoy it while it lasts.

Trust me, I am.

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