Living Compassionately

I’m proud of myself today. I was busy working and of course thinking of other things while doing it. I had started to write down the bizillion things I need to do in the next month and feeling overwhelmed of course. I was sitting here and decided to back out of the church cookie walk that I have already signed up for. I’m not personally in charge of it and to create the 6 dozen cookies that are expected by each person would cost me at least 3 evenings of work. So….I decided this is my year to say I’m not doing it. I don’t have the time, I really don’t have the energy, and of all years, this is the year I shouldn’t be taking on projects, I should be learning to say no, and this is the time when people should understand that the most.
So I’m feeling a huge amount of relief and I’m not bothered if people say to me “hey, why aren’t you helping?” I’ll just say, I need to sleep rather than bake.