I'm down, but not out.
I picked up a bit of food poisoning, most likely on Sunday, and my stomach was practicing involuntary backflips for a while. (Lesson learned: Undercooked seafood = suffering. Well-cooked = happiness.)
It hasn't taken me out of the game though. I'm ahead on my numbers for the year, so I took a couple of days off from training. I reminded myself of General Douglas MacArthur's line, "We're not retreating - we're advancing in another direction," and then I set off to work on other goals.
I cleaned a lot, as one of my personal goals was to excavate myself out of my piles of unsorted stuff. I went through old junk mail, shredded it, and tossed enough into the recycle bin to account for a small tree. It made me feel sad. I'm going to plant some trees this year. Please hold me to this.
I briefly turned on the television and CNN was doing a viewer-response segment about mixed martial arts and churches. I listened to angry viewers denounce the martial arts as violence for longer than I should have, and then turned off the television to go and meditate instead. I felt disappointed. I'm going to do at least three presentations on anger management, non-violent conflict resolution, and peace education this year, and thirty more through my students. Please hold me to this.
This is part of what I do when life throws me a curve ball: I adjust and find a way to take action on it. It doesn't always involve creating new goals, unless it's in an area that I haven't been working on. The commitment (or recommitment) revitalizes me, so that instead of staying down, I get back up.
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