CRISIS/EXHAUSTION/CONTROL
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The sky is falling! The sky is falling!. –Chicken Little
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Living our lives like Chicken Little can be quite exhausting. Yet so many of us live from crisis to another! We have become so accustomed to crisis and deadlines that we feel almost lost if we are not putting out some kind of fire. In fact, if we really were honest, there is something dramatic and exciting about handling a crisis. It makes us feel as if we have some modicum of control in our lives.
We have, however, on occasion wondered if all these crises are normal and if there is another way to live life that might be a little less exhausting. Even though we are exhilarated in handling these crisis, they do leave us feeling drained. Could be that these things don’t just happen to us? That we have a hand in their creation?
As we begin to work on our recovery, we see others around us who do not live from one crisis to anotehr, and they seem to do just fine..they’re even serene.
CRISIS and my illusion of control are not unrelated. I hope I will allow myself to be open to noticing the realtionship between two in life today.
