the 3 c’s

every morning i choose to get out of bed. i choose to make my kids breakfast, myself coffee, and i choose to go about my day as if it is nothing more than ordinary.

it is important to note that i also make several choices the night before…

not to fold all the laundry, not to put away the laundry i did fold, to leave the clean dishes in the dishwasher & the dirty ones in the sink, not to make my sons lunch ahead of time, etc…etc…etc.

i am pretty consistent in my procrastinating choices even though i am aware of the inevitable consequences that are sure to follow the next morning, the next day, the following hour.

when will consequences lead to change i wonder?

The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

…more on this tomorrow