The Mess Never Ends!

One of the most daunting things about adulting is what seems like the perpetual need to clean something. The house, the car, the laundry, etc. As soon as you get done with one thing you move to the next. When you get to the end of the CLEAN THIS list, you go back to the start and find that it needs to be done again. Dust continually seems to show up, mostly from the dead skin we shed daily. Even while I am putting a load of laundry into the washing machine I am thinking about the clothes I am wearing at the time. Laundry literally NEVER ends.

This seems to me to be an excellent metaphor for life itself. There is always going to be an obstacle of some type. Something that needs to be "cleaned". Sometimes that can be an enjoyable activity like taking a vacation to clear your mind. But mostly it consists of boring, repetitious but necessary tasks that will grate on your very soul if you let it.

We need to accept these boring, repetitious necessary tasks as they are and just power through them. Why waste time and energy whining and complaining about them. All that does is get you angry and frustrated. End the end you will still have to do the tasks anyway. We should all strive to make it a habit to do the necessary but loathsome tasks in our lives as efficiently and as well as we possibly can. You wouldn't want to have a DO-OVER task like these, would you???