Just a thought dump about chores, motivation, and the mentality to maintain:

“I feel overwhelmed with responsibilities right now. Dishes are piled up on the counter which just adds to my waning motivation to cook. Vorg and Tater’s fur has been drifting like tumbleweeds around the kitchen floor for the past week. But I’m tired and overwhelmed and stressed. The never-ending-ness of it all is getting to me. I think I subconsciously got it in my head years ago that chores have an end and aren’t just part of life’s natural rhythm. But they are. They’re just cyclical – I wash the dishes to use the dishes to wash the dishes. Dirty clothes need to be washed so they can be worn and get dirty again.

As a kid, I was always told that I had to get my chores done before I could play. And, while I can see the intent behind that mentality, it meant that I always had to put my life (playtime) on hold until they were done. I wish I would have learned how to integrate chores into the life I love rather than see them as an obstacle to it. Maybe then I could appreciate better the cadence that comes with the dirty/clean cycle.

But isn’t this mentality so reflective of the world we live in? Everything done to get to the next thing or some arbitrary goal rather than each moment, task, and activity being fully committed to and lived in? “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow has enough worries of its own.”

What greater an act of rebellion in a busy society than to live each moment in its entirety.