{"id":6752,"date":"2013-04-21T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T01:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=6752"},"modified":"2013-04-21T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T01:29:13","slug":"sunday-evening-is-not-easy-like-say-for-example-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/21\/sunday-evening-is-not-easy-like-say-for-example-sunday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Evening Is Not Easy Like, Say for Example, Sunday Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

There I was, expressing my wildly swinging emotions about… some topic. I don’t know—this was probably 8 years ago. But I do remember what my friend Cat said: “Well, sometimes possibility is winning, and sometimes your concerns are winning.”<\/p>\n

It was such a simple paraphrasing of what I’d been ruminating on. It was as if I had been spinning in circles, rising into the air, and she had grabbed my ankles and given them a toss earthward. Thunk, thunk, my feet were planted. All was steady.<\/p>\n

Because they’re both fiction—possibility and concerns. Neither is real. Neither is what’s happening right now in the moment. Neither can be measured. The battle is a fantasy.<\/p>\n

Every so often, I’m reminded that this battle between what’s possible and what’s worrisome rages on, but I feel like I’d benefit from keeping this concept closer to the decision-making part of my brain. (Especially since my concerns tend to occur to me not as obstacles to be overcome but instead as immovable barriers.)<\/p>\n

Plus, I’ve noticed a predisposition toward one or the other at different times, so in the spirit of knowing thmyself<\/a>, I’m going to make a list. I should probably post it on the fridge. Or tattoo it onto my forearm.<\/p>\n

Historically, when possibility has been winning:<\/p>\n