A Non-Relaxer...
My favorite magazine came in the mail today, The Cottage Journal. It always has the most beautiful cover and the new Spring issue is no exception. There is a picture of a hammock filled with soft pillows and a flowered throw, beneath it some pretty, bright pink flowers. It looks like a spot anyone would want to spend a lazy afternoon, relaxing, not thinking about much of anything, just doing nothing……if you were the kind of person who likes that sort of thing.
Sometimes I wish I was the kind of person who does like that sort of thing but I have trouble doing nothing. I don’t think of myself as a workaholic, I just happen to like being busy more than I like to relax. I like going to work at Sisters, waiting on customers, looking for inventory, arranging it in the store. (The only thing I hate is bookwork, ugh, I can’t even begin to tell you how much I hate bookwork!) I like working on our home renovation projects (with a few exceptions, but that’s another post). I like working in the yard, planting flowers, moving them around to better spots or dividing them when they get too large.
Now, you may think that I think it’s a bad thing that most people are able to sit and do nothing, relax in a hammock for a few hours on a nice summer day or spend a day with a good book or a half dozen movies. Not so, I think if you are able to do that and it’s enjoyable to you, then absolutely you should do those things and more (or less, if that’s how you look at it), it’s just not for me. That’s because I’m a “non-relaxer”…k
February 25, 2015