JUST ONE MO THING

I came home tonight after an exhausting day at work. Ever had one of those days where you just put out one fire to see another smoldering? You extinguish that fire to see sparks from yet another troublesome fire. We have those days sometimes, don’t we?

Once I arrived home I thought I could put away my firehose. But alas, my whack-a-mole day was not over. I went over to my kitchen sink and discovered the floor was wet. I looked under my sink and felt more water. UGGG. I pulled everything out from under and sink and dried it out completely. About this time I started to have a mini-meltdown. I cried as I didn’t feel like dealing with this tonight. I cried because I had to handle this on my own. A year ago I would have called for my husband to come and fix and my knight in shining armor would have come to my rescue. Now the only call I will probably be making is to a plumber.

Once I calmed down, phoned a friend and dried my tears I was reminded that in the grand scheme of things this plumbing issue isn’t huge. It can probably be fixed relatively easily and should not be that expensive. Its not the sink- its the just whole one ‘mo thing issue. You see we can handle a lot of things but there comes that time that the smallest thing can tip us over. The most trivial thing can cause us to lose it. A seemingly insignificant leak can cause a meltdown because it’s JUST ONE MO THING.

It’s all about cumulative effect. It’s the straw that broke the camels back. It’s the last thing piled on top of everything else you have to deal with causes the whole structure to collapse. I don’t mean to belabor the point, but you get it. Tonight was just ONE MO THING I had to deal with.

So my advice to you (and myself) is to constantly clean out under the sink of your life. Keep it clutter free, check for leaks in your emotional health so that when the ONE MO THING comes (and it will) you won’t have the meltdown like I did. Get your firehose and mop ready- but remember- you’ve got this.