nursingforsocialjustice

We aren’t beautiful blank slates. A thousand times a day we make judgments. We assess. We discern. We react. We reflect. Life is a whirlwind. Have you watched the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off recently?

I feel like I blinked and I moved from being an angsty teen to being a 40 year old mother of 4 angsty pre-teens. Lately (I say lately but I mean for the last 5 years) the weight of the world is bringing me down. It’s a mid-life crisis in full swing. I’m sitting here wondering if I’m doing enough to make the world a better place, while at the same time wondering if I should walk away and start a funny pet video blog. And who’s to say that pet video blogs aren’t making the world a better place? It’s me, that’s who. And all of this is an exercise in procrastination to avoid my penultimate work, my PhD dissertation. The great feat of strength I must accomplish before the piece de resistance of my life…or is it?

I’m at this strange point in my life where I feel like I’ve taken on too much, whole simultaneously feeling like I’m definitely not doing enough. It’s the Protestant work ethic whispering sweet somethings in my ear.

Love,

Michelle D.