I am participating in the 31 Days of Free Writes October challenge. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. (Confession: I *may* not be able to resist spell-checking!)
Today’s prompt: Connect
Look closely at the picture of tweezers above. I got them out to deal with a stray eyebrow hair the other day. I squeezed and squeezed yet nothing happened.
When I looked closely, I realized that the ends, the parts that would need to grasp the errant eyebrow hair in order to extricate it …… DID NOT CONNECT NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED TO FORCE THEM TO.
This “totally ineffective tweezer” situation seemed like such a parallel for so many other things in life.
From a distance, without my glasses on, the tweezers looked like any other pair of tweezers (frankly I was amazed to find tweezers at all — we never seem to have them when we need them — same goes for emery boards and fingernail clippers, especially toenail clippers but I digress).
It was when I actually tried to get them to do what they were supposed to do, that they failed.
Are we somehow doing the same thing in our lives? Putting on all the outer appearances so we look like we have it all together but neglecting to maintain the qualities and priorities that help us connect when we most need to?
Because I work from home, and because I will admit I have been more and more hesitant to bother to get ready to leave (something has to be really compelling or downright mandatory to coax me out), I worry that my “connector” bits are getting rusty, that I won’t have enough “foundation” experiences to write about…
…that I’ll end up in an endless loop where I am not connecting enough to grasp anything that matters.
Wife of one, Mom of two, Friend of many. My pronouns are she/her/hers.
Maybe another lesson is that “appearance can be deceiving”. You think that bobby pin is going to work, but when you try, what an unpleasant surprise. So now what?
Definitely!! I was in disbelief for a few moments there, thinking I was holding it wrong or something!
This post made me smile friend. How often do we all think our parts aren’t functioning fully too?
Oh exactly —— so many fun/interesting lessons from a simple beauty implement.