LIFE IS LONG . . .

I have been in a bit of a rut for the last couple of months.  I just don't feel that I have been doing my best in most areas of my life. 

I hate ruts. In my experience, it takes a lot of hard work and courage and will power to lift yourself up by your bootstraps when you haven't been in peak form.  It's scary and hard because you have to confront the fact that you have been settling into mediocrity so that you can steps to fix it.  I hate, hate, hate confronting my own mediocrity.

The best thing to remember when you're in a rut and feel as though you have to fix things is that whatever you may have screwed up is transient.  Life is not short, as people always say.  Life, in fact, is quite long.  If I am mediocre for a few months in 2006, it may matter now.  It may matter a lot.  But it won't matter in 2030, if I get my act together going forward.

Keeping the big picture in mind has kept me going through a lot of times harder than this.  My first year in practice, I embarrassed myself with my own stupidity in court and in the office at least five times a day.  But I kept reminding myself that I would still be practicing law in 40 years and all my stupid blunders in 1997 wouldn't matter a whit by then.  And indeed, I was right.  Heck, all my stupid blunders in 1997 didn't even matter much in 1998 and certainly not in 1999.  So to myself and to all of you, I say, whatever is going poorly in your life or whatever mistakes you perceive yourself to have made, it's never too late to fix them and move forward and one day they will be a distant, long ago memory that you can probably chuckle about. 

Comments

[norbizness]

If I thought I would still be practicing law in 2045, I might quit a lot sooner than I planned. Baseball cards are making a comeback, right?

[The Happy Feminist]

It is kind of a disturbing thought, isn't it? I'd rather go into corgi-farming.

[j0lt]

Sometimes when I'm in a rut, I Know what needs to change. It's just a question of finding the courage/will power to change. Other times, I'm in a rut, but can't decide What it is that I want to do differently - or I know several things I want to do differently but also know that I can't do all of them - at least not all at once because of lack of time. And yet, I feel like time is going faster and faster . . . and I'm wasting it by not doing these things I want to do.

I dunno, I think that if I had hadn't gone to that Mott the Hoople/Edgar Winter concert in 1972, everything bad that has happened to me since would have happened in an different dimension in the space-time continuum and my current life would be all sweetness and light.

[Jodie]

Looking at this from the perspective of almost 50, at this point I'd give a lot for a nice, comfortable rut for a year or so -- the nice thing about ruts is that you need time to recharge your energy, and a nice safe place, steady work and low stress is the way to do that. But maybe your conception of rut and mine are very different.

[The Happy Feminist]

I think that's exactly what it is -- my body and my psyche forcing myself to recharge. The problem is just going with that rather than feeling discouraged by it.

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