Kids, I'm (finally) here to tell ya... I'm officially a believer in the theory that it is entirely possible for a person to wear just too many damn hats in their life! I wondered why I've been so exhausted and running on just about empty at all times lately. Then, I saw a quick snippet of an infomercial over the weekend that sort of resonated with me and I thought I'd take a moment to share my realizations.
The commercial was for one of those "I'm up at two in the morning so I must need some kind of guidance in my life" self-help video series, but the tagline was what caught my attention. It asked one simple question: "Exactly Who Are You?"
Now let's be clear before I start meandering through the rest of this post. NO I'M NOT HAVING A MIDLIFE WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN CRISIS! Actually far from it. No what grabbed me is that the list of things that falls into that question has grown quite immense lately. I started to think about it and here's the list I came up with:
Husband - Son - Brother - Uncle - Friend - Manager - Author - Blogger - Powerlifter
- Aspiring Chef - Gamer - Tech Nerd - - - - -
What occurs(ed) to me is that there's absolutely not enough time on a daily basis for any of us to be all the things we want to be, well that is if you intend to do a remotely good job at all of them. I think the challenge is going to come in figuring out how to balance everything and still remain productive at work and the like.
Or actually I could just shorten the whole thought process and cheat and ask a working single parent how they do it...
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