I got a new toothbrush. A sonicare electric toothbrush. The thing works really well, but part of its trick is that it forces you to brush for a full 2 minutes. As soon as you turn the brush on, it vibrates for exactly 2 minutes before it turns itself off.
This is a great feature, but it annoys me! Why? Because those 2 minutes seem like an eternity. Because those combine to be a total of 4 minutes of my day (2 minutes in the morning and 2 in the evening) when I can't do anything else besides brush my teeth. It seems like such a waste of time. I can't chew on the brush and make the bed, or separate the laundry, or clean up the counter. I have to actually hold on to the brush and I have to do it for a full 2 minutes.
This should not annoy me. I need to change my attitude. Rather than cramming so much into my day, I need more minutes where I can just do one thing, and think. Pray. Be. I need to embrace the time I have nursing and sometimes just be quiet. Soak in the moment. Recharge. I do not have to be multitasking every minute of the day.
See? These are the lessons I learn when I take 2 minutes to do nothing but brush my teeth. What else could I learn if I just slowed down?
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