Dailies

At the end of the day

By Joy ⋅ February 4, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

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You realize that the deadlines are over; you’ve survived that meeting, review, or spat with your boss or co-worker; you forgot what you ate for lunch; your fretting over something during breakfast wasn’t worth the temporary trauma you put yourself through, and little of what you did really matters now.

There was a book I read, and I can’t remember what it was, that said that we spend so much time, energy, and emotions over things that won’t even matter 5 days from now, a year from now, 5 years from now. That when picking your battles and choosing whether to assert your “rightness”, you should ask yourself if it’s worth it and if it would even matter a week or two from now. Would it be relevant in your life years from now? It could have been a relationship book, because it sounds like it, but I’m not sure. I do know that this is something important to remember when you’re sitting there or looking yourself in the mirror and stressing over someone or something. We get so caught up with everything going on Now — and there’s really nothing you can do with some of them — that really, it won’t matter tomorrow.

I’m a born worrier. I worry about a lot of stuff, but mostly I worry about the people I care about. It borders on excessive and obsessive that I have to tell myself to Just.Stop.It. Things will take care of themselves. I should let go because there are things I have no control of, and there’s no use in over-exhausting myself with them.

At the end of the day, you surrender yourself to sleep and you just have to let go and let yourself rest. Nothing else matters because the day is over and you’ve done all you could do for one day, and it’s time to move on to the next.