Channelling Eeyore

Posted on | March 29, 2010 | 1 Comment

“It’s snowing still,” said Eeyore gloomily.
“So it is.”
“And freezing.”
“Is it?”
“Yes,” said Eeyore. “However,” he said, brightening up a little, “we haven’t had an earthquake lately.”

My more astute blog readers among you will notice that I did not, as per usual, post a weekly gratitude post yesterday. I wish I could say that I was off doing something wonderfully fantastic and thus had no time to blog, but the reality is much simpler: I had nothing to write.

Perhaps as a side effect of my lingering writer’s block, I’ve been having a hard time finding things to be grateful for lately. I realize this makes me seem very ungrateful, but I’ve been stuck in a bit of a rut and when you’re at the bottom looking up, it’s hard to see all that you do have.

Work has been incredibly busy this month and, coupled with my new-found commitment to waking up in the morning to exercise before work, I’m usually exhausted by the time I get home. Blogging – and gratitude – are apparently the first things to go when it comes time to prioritize the precious free time I do have.

Recently, Kristen revived the Love List Project and I had high hopes of jumping back into keeping track of the things I loved, especially since it helped remind me of all the things I do have in my life – all the good, all the positive. Alas, this slump of mine managed to extend itself to that part of my life as well and so far, I’ve come up with nothing. Not one thing.

I say that I’m either too busy or too tired to be bothered with gratitude, love list items or even writing, but as Kristen herself points out, it’s exactly when we think we don’t have the time that we should make the time:

The busier I am, the less likely I am to pay attention and take note of what’s good in my life; but those, of course, are the moments I need to be focusing on what I love more than ever.

To say that I have nothing to be grateful for or nothing on my Love List is ridiculous, of course. I have hundreds and thousands of things. I just can’t seem to articulate them right now. I’m hoping I’ll snap out of this slump soon and return to my regular, mostly cheery self. In the meantime, I’ll work harder on making the time for the things I know I need and maybe I’ll even take a cue from my good friend Eeyore and focus on the unexpected bright side of things:

It’s been raining a lot here in Boston, but at least it isn’t snowing and while my job is busy, at least I have a job that I love. And that’s a pretty good place to start.

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