0.3% — Exercises in Perspective
The other day my husband asked me to do some math. He told me to take the number of years since I began my therapy and divide it by my age. I did it quickly in my head and came back with 3%. “You sure about that?” he asked. I did it again. Yep. He again asked if I was sure, so I wrote the problem out on a piece of paper. Turns out I was wrong. It was actually 0.3%. That is the amount of time I have been trying to implement skills that I learned in my magical year of therapy. He said perhaps it shouldn’t be so surprising that I haven’t quite got the hang of everything yet. Um, yeah. Maybe. Nevertheless, practice makes perfect. So, that is what we do.
I am now on day 5 of green tea rather than coffee. For the first few days it was really, really, really hard. Just like quitting smoking, I still can’t think of it as a forever thing — today I am not having coffee. Today I can handle. Because, forever, as his royal purpleness (that would be Prince) once said, is a mighty long time. I’m not there yet.
Also, by way of a little promotion of “the other blog,” my co-blogger extraodinaire, Kaizerin, has posted a great review of one of her latest reads over on The Bookish Dark (our new book discussion blog).
March 31st, 2006 at 10:32 am
I’m in the dark here, but does coffee affect you in a totally bad way? I drink it about 2X a week and it makes me a bit hyper, but then I sometimes need that help. Green tea is wonderful (my personal favorite is Sky Between the Branches by the Republic of Tea). Black tea is good for you, too. BTW, your husband is wise. I like his attitude.
March 31st, 2006 at 11:22 am
.13 here but it is still amazingly hard to do all the time.
On the other hand, when I think about how fucked up I used to be, I get quite cheerful. The view form here is a lot better.
And you know, perfectionism aside, one does learn a lot from not doing it right immediately and consistently.
April 3rd, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Interesting, isn’t it, that a side effect of making progress is frustration at not having made more progress?