Nap Time

Yesterday I decided to discontinue taking pain medication, hoping that enduring some additional level of discomfort would speed up healing. While there were times I felt uncomfortable it was no worse then a couple of days after running a hard ultra.

One of the changes I did notice was a level of tiredness (don't want to say fatigue) that I felt after each one of my walks. No problem however as I simply would lay down and take a nap.

Nap time seems to be one of the “benefits” of this entire experience, the ability to lay down at one o'clock in the afternoon to doze off for a couple hours is liberating. Today as I laid down I started thinking about how the “Size of My World” changed so dramatically over the course of less then a week.

Last Friday morning, when I awoke “My World” was a bed, a view to a bathroom and a room populated with family and friends. I was the “Voodoo Doll” I imagined weeks before with various attached tubes and the occasional stick of a needle.

By Friday evening however “My World” had expanded now the bathroom was reachable and the world outside of my room had been partially explored.

I'm not going to go into detail of every day but because it's simply not important. The lesson I think I've learned was that the “Importance of My World” changed in direct proportion to the “Size of My World”. On Friday morning it simply was not important that I wasn't at work, running or just hanging out at home, my world had changed as did all of my priorities.

Perhaps it would be advantageous for some of us to occasionally try to “Downsize our World” to bring to light what truly is important.