Red Flags
So, today during my massage, my MT and I were talking about how other people do things that we find unreasonable or just plain stupid, but that obviously the people doing the thing must think that they are reasonable or they wouldn’t be doing them.
We talked about an acquaintance of mine who is now in jail for doing stupid shit, and both thought that certainly being put in jail must raise some ‘red flags’ to him that his behavior is not reasonable. We agreed that sometimes we can even look back at our own lives and wonder why the hell we did something, which, in hindsight, was stupid, but must’ve seemed reasonable at the time.
Anyway, I got to thinking about myself and certainly realized that the weight I’ve gained over the last year or so needs to be a RED FLAG for me. What I’m doing isn’t working and I need to change my behavior. While over-eating isn’t going to land me in actual jail, it is certainly a constraint on me, I can’t move like I used to, I feel tired and lethargic instead of energetic, I feel depressed instead of hopeful and vibrant, so, in a way, it is a jail.
Why is it so hard to see our own red flags, and, then, having seen them, why is it so hard to DO SOMETHING about it? It’s easy to see red flags waving around other people, but so hard to see the ones right in front of our faces.
I’m going to commit to seeing my own warning flags and getting back into the green, back to feeling hopeful and happy and energetic. I really am tired of being tired.
