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Anticipation. I'll be having dinner with a friend later this evening and I am very much looking forward to it. We have good conversations this friend and I. Conversations that, if we let them, could probably carry us from dinner all the way through to breakfast. We don't of course, and this makes our conversations all the more cherished.
What do you feel right now?
Hungry. I am sipping water but fighting the urge to gobble down a snack as I want to leave room in my belly for the tasty vittles soon to be placed before me. Mixed with my anticipation it is a rather delicious feeling.
What do you feel right now?
Accomplished. I went to the gym with another friend this afternoon. We did an hour of cardio on the stair climber, the bike and the treadmill. I've felt like a slug so far this winter. It was wonderful to move and to sweat.
What do you feel right now?
Anxious. Tomorrow I have rehearsal with my troupe for a show we have coming up in March. As always I feel the weight of all the planning, listing, doing and keeping track of things that is to come. I love performing and when I do I feel illuminated on the inside, but all of the other stuff that goes along with producing a show...let's just say it's no longer something I enjoy as much as I used to. I wish sometimes I was not so good at it.
What do you feel right now?
Anxious (Part II). The new semester begins on Monday. As I've progressed through school each semester has been more intense and required more of me than the last. I spend hours each night on homework. It leaves little time for all of the other things that are important to me. I manage to do as much as I do by very careful planning and allocation of my time but often, by mid semester, I am tired and my self care begins to slip.
What do you feel right now?
Hopeful. Though things have become more difficult and more demands are being made of me, at the same time I have developed better skills for managing those times. I know when to take a break, when to say I've done enough and when to let go of things that are no longer working for me. I am far more aware of my own limitations and I can see when I am coming close to the edge of them.
What do you feel right now?
Empty. The year ahead has many new experiences waiting for me. I feel ready to be filled up with them all. The good, the bad, the tough, the easy, the sad, the happy, the eye-opening, the new, the old, the destruction and the creation. I hope I am paying attention enough to savor as many of these experiences as possible and to bear with grace those that may be more trying.
What do YOU feel right now?
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