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I’m afraid of time
Too much, too little.
Has your relationship with time become completely warped these last few months?
Because mine sure has, and it’s not feeling so good as of late. And this goes beyond the foggy, confused, what day/week/month is it even, which I am certainly experiencing.
I feel as if I’m about to have a breakthrough with my relationship with time, but I’m that part pre-breakthrough, where everything… pretty much sucks. Where your issues feel more heightened than they ever have before. Where it’s all you can think about.
This all arises because I’ve recently realized I have a, ah… let’s say, fraught relationship with time. I came to this knowing in two ways. One, in my Introduction to Intentional Living course, I teach one module where I ask students to track their time and money for a week, and then answer some prompts about their relationship with each afterwards.
I do this because time and money are two of the biggest blockers that pop up in relation to living an intentional life — we use them as excuses for not doing the things we want most. You know what that sounds like: “I can’t quit my job that I passionately hate and that is sucking my soul because it pays well and without it I wouldn’t be able to afford my mortgage.” “I would totally take tennis…
