There are basic things that we have to do to live, so basic that it is easy to forget how strange they are. We have to eat, we have to spend hours every night in a shutdown mode, sleeping. And because we've done these basic functions everyday from the time we were born, the other things that we acquire as we get older are more noticeable and seem like inconveniences. Things like taxes, laundry, getting the handyman to unlock the door to the bathroom that somehow snapped shut on its own.
It was the first day off in many many days, not counting the time away with family. It's rare to have an adult catch-up day, where I practice and stare at a computer trying to figure out how to categorize expenses. It seems absurd that for other things to function this sort of cleaning needs to happen, but after an bland day of teaching not one student, I can see the value.
But just like sleeping, and eating, in any given second we are living in our skin. The door won't open, he'll have to get a saw, the carpet cleaning will be twice as much as quoted, that expense should have been divided into two others. But alive. Watching another move, moving and breathing so that more can be done.
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