It’s sunny and chilly and Monday kind of just hit me in the face this morning. I’ll spare you the details, because nothing was serious, but more like a thorn in my shoe, which actually might have been what was in my shoe when I started my workout.
After trying in vain to figure out what was pricking the bottom of my foot, I changed my socks and got on with it.
That worked.
One day or another, we all have things in our socks. Not literally, though maybe literally, come to think of it, but something–or someone–that needles you and cannot be ignored. You don’t have to ignore it.
Being told we have to ignore things that harm us is, itself, often harmful. Why shouldn’t we advocate for ourselves and others? Why does the thing or person doing the harm get more freedom than we do?
The assumption, I suppose is that that behavior has its own consequences. But that’s not always true.
So the one thing we can do?
Change our socks.
Ignoring is not the same thing as not caring. Removing the problem is not the same thing as ignoring. Whatever that thing was in the sock, it turned out it didn’t have to be the center of my universe as I tried to get a workout in.
I just made it vanish, poof.
Well hopefully, hopefully, no matter what it was, it will come out in the wash like so many things do.
So whatever kind of Monday your Monday is morphing into, whatever might be there, lurking in the fibers, you don’t need to give it your focus.
Change your socks. Just change your socks.
And have a good Monday.
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