We have just had the four day Easter weekend, a time to pause, reflect and perhaps recharge. As for me, this was accentuated by taking a bit of a tumble while doing some work around my house. Doh! Nothing major, though wrenched my back enough that all my plans to exercise and do tasks around the house were, well, put on enforced pause.
I’d love to say I had some major epiphanies over the last few days, but mostly I’ve been taking anti-inflammatory painkillers waiting to see the osteopath later this morning.
I could stretch things by drawing some parallels to the pandemic creating enforced pauses, but that feels a bit laboured at this stage.
I’ll simply note my awareness that when I fell, once I’d regathered myself, I simply reset and thought to myself: “ok, I have to put my health first, everything else will just go on pause”. Perhaps the pandemic has allowed me to grow to have more acceptance when things we don’t expect and can’t control create such an enforced pause. I do aspire to be someone known for equanimity, so pleased with my response in this case!
With that, on with the day. Once again, I’m ok, the enforced pause will see me wait for the body to heal itself over the next week or two.
PS Why “the sequel” in the post title? Oddly enough I wrote a blog with this title in February 2020 (see the photo above), though hopefully I can go more than 13 or so months before another enforced pause happens.