Squandrous
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Today, I tore down my pink post-it notes from my wall at work, because the pink post-it notes — in contrast with the blue and yellow ones that are all work-related — are reminders of things I’m looking forward to, things coming up in my non-work life that keep me waiting in anticipation.
This morning, I woke up, tired of waiting. Tired of looking forward, tired of anticipation. Just tired.
So I tore down the pink post-it notes. I tore them up into little pieces and threw them away. And then regretted it immediately.
Because I realized that no matter how grounded we are in the present — and recently I’ve found it very easy to be caught up in my now instead of my later — we always need something to look forward to. We always need hope.
Today, I tore down my hope in the form of little pink post-it notes.
It’s time for me to work on building it back up.
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