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Originally Posted by MatBell
Thanks 
I like this quote. It’s true when things are really tough:
“Then I remembered something that a friend told me the night before: I don’t have to worry about making it through an entire day. Hell, I don’t even have to tackle a whole hour. All I have to do is the thing right in front of me. In that moment, it was loading some groceries onto the belt. That’s all. If I still existed once they were all on the belt, then my next step was paying for them and hauling them to my car. “Do the thing right in front of you,” she reminded me. “Nothing else.” Everything you need is in the present moment, she said.” |
I like this quote very much too, Mat. It's something I have to keep reminding myself again and again and again. The further ahead I let my thoughts take me, the more miserable and overwhelmed I become. It's the old "by the inch it's a cinch, by the yard it's hard" idea and to back down to the present moment and let all the other thoughts go, to narrow your focus, as it were, can be extremely relieving of distress.
Be well
