Tuesday.... "chooseday"
we are required to make so many choices each hour, each day each year. Some of them are small... what to wear today? (I know whatever I choose will be too hot or cold)
Which mug to drink your coffee or morning tea from?
I was adopted as an infant into an existing family with 16 and 12 year old daughters, who got married early giving me faux siblings (their kids) to grow up with. My "niece" came to visit me once bringing her kids along. One morning I asked which mug she wanted with her breakfast coffee.
She was incredulous saying what does it matter? who cares?
I blinked... I care, I thought. I pick the one that suits me each time, why not? Why wouldn't you care?
choice.... a blessing and an annoyance at times. Increasingly these days of home cooked meals, I'm asked what do you want for dinner?
People chow, so I don't have to choose what to have.
I am an artist by temperament. I make a meeeelion choices with each design. I like the choices. Often with fabric I can audition different patterns before committing to them but with painting it is more of a commitment since I use watercolors. Mostly I enjoy the process of making a decision on art. It is not life and death, it won't impact many people and I have to primarily make myself happy.
I remember having to choose from the car I really wanted and the one that was practical and affordable. With some sacrifice I could afford both. My head and my spirit were at odds... and I wasn't sure what to do so I asked my older sister. She said, if you tossed a coin, and it came up the practical one, would you be upset? then pick the fun one and make it work! Someone else told me once, if you have two choices and go back and forth then likely they are both good, and either will work so stop dithering!
My sister's husband once told me, most decisions aren't right or wrong... they just are choices. Once you make a choice, you take that road and live with it... accepting the good and bad that come with it.
tell me about the choices you are making today... let me get a glass of tea so I can relax and listen!
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Your point is very relevant right now. Being locked down cuts our choices enormously, but many of them aren't important. What store do we go to? Answer: no stores. What brands do we buy? Which cereal? Which crackers? Which soft drink? Answers: the ones we can get when we order things. Maybe we can skip the soft drink and make do with water (that's our choice now). Maybe we opt out of meat. But these aren't really important choices.
Then there are the really meaningful choices. Travel to foreign places? Seeing polar bears? Seeing whales? Birding tours? Exotic islands? No choice: we have to stay home. Inviting people for dinner? Can't do it. Picking a restaurant? Ha ha.
You made me think.
be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
I wish I had to choice of where to travel to. Well, I guess I do in a way, but have chosen to stay close to home this year.
Definitely I have a choice for my mug, I have a couple I love and some I would never have my coffee from!
I have really enjoyed your posts these last few days as they really make me stop and think instead of just looking at pretty pictures. Plus, they give us such insight into you being you. My life is so rote compared to yours. I use the same coffee container and same water container all day every day. How boring. LOL I barely make serious choices due to Covid! Oh well, “maybe “ I’ll paint today.
Good points-so glad you joined us at T wonderful and kind bloggers over at T Hugs Kathy
So did you take your sisters wise advice and get the fun car?? My youngest daughter is dithering on something and this was a good post for me to understand where she's coming from. I like your drink choice, I forget that you can mix two tea bag flavors to make a different drink! ~ Enjoy
Lovely muse, LeeAnne. Today I choose to visit my T-friends. Then I choose to make some art. I feel grateful to choices like this that I can make.
Happy T-Day! Hugs, Eileen
Too true, choice is not always easy! Happy T Day. Valerie
I do agree with you that the process is really more important than the result. Today I chose NOT to argue with a friend who was venting about being kicked off the indoor walking track this morning at 5:30 am because she was not wearing a mask. I wanted to yell at her and say "follow the rules!", but I just agreed that the staff person could have been more polite about it. It was a good choice for me as she wouldn't have listened to me anyway because she "knows better". LOL And later today I plan to choose to sew something happy!!
Oh boy, I can relate. I was an over-thinker until my daughter started calling me on it. Now things don’t matter so much, and life for me is more peaceful. ☺️
Oh, yes, the cup/mug is chosen each time :) I even have ones I get out for each season. I got the Autumn mugs out today :)
I am a southerner and grew up with sweet tea being the usual drink. Happy T Tuesday!
Oh LeeAnna, I adore your chooseday choices you ponder over. You can't rewind the day, but you can learn from your choices. Some you will be pleased with, some you will wish for a different path.
But regardless, there's always a jug of tea in the fridge waiting for you to decide if you want to drink it from a goblet, a glass, or a mug. Thanks so very much for this insightful way at looking at what decisions and choices we make each day and for doing so today for T Tuesday.
I chose to try pumpkin spice cheerios for breakfast, and when at work with the printer/copier/fax waiting for repair. The computer also went down leaving me to hand write truck tickets. I chose to go with the flow and joke with the truck drivers about it, offering them a wrapped candy while they waited for me. We all paused a little from the daily grind and it wasnt so bad.
I always pick my mug. I do like one that fits my drink and my mood. And your brother-in-law makes a lot of sense. Picking a mug is a good way to make an early in the day decision and get you started on the right road. Hope it was a happy T day. Hugs-Erika
An interesting thing to ponder. Decisions are so important as each decision has a consequence. I struggle with making decisions and wish they came easier to me.
Happy Tea Day,
Kate
I use the same coffee mug everyday, even though there's a whole shelf full in the cupboard many with iris and other flowers. I make my ice tea with raspberry, peach, and green tea bags, but I brew it extra strength, then mix that with an equal amount of water. But if there's a decision to be made about a new item to buy, I dither forever. It took me 3 years to choose a new low end sewing machine to use as a travel machine and, of course, I don't really like it that much. I'm all for the simpler life right now because it means I don't have to make decisions. What a wimp, right?
Pat
not a wimp, just exhausted like me.
LA - a wonderful post. Loved what you wrote about hindsight. Somewhere around here I have a quote about "madness" - it isn't looking forward that tends to drive men mad, but regret for things in the past!
Today I spent a lot of time in the garden, plotting what seeds I will plant in the fall and the spring. Pure joy!
Great post - So true about the number of choices, large and small, we must make each day. I've found ways to simplify during these Covid times. 1) from all our many, many souvenir coffee cups, DH and I have each chosen one as "our" cup, so if we get sick and need to quarantine, the other won't accidentally use ours. Same with beverage glasses. 2) I make a menu plan for the week and shop for groceries accordingly. No need to think each day about what's for dinner. I wish I'd started doing this years ago!
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"Iced" tea. YUM!! I was shocked when I discovered that some drink it WITHOUT ice. Even more shocked to find that you couldn't get brewed iced tea in New Jersey... where most places serve instant. YUCK!!
Interesting topic. Some choices you don't really think about. A mug for tea is any mug that happens to be clean at the time if the favorite mug is in the sink. 😺 Happy T Day
I like your points about choices. This week I've had regrets about some of my life choices swirling through my mind, so your post gave me a little perspective. Happy Belated T-Day!
So many of our usual ways of choosing are not an option this year but we do still have choices, they are just temporarily different! At the start of lockdown we couldn't choose where we ordered our online groceries, we can now choose where we shop and whether we want to continue with ordering on line (we do, for now) We can choose to go out for walks, as long as we feel safe(mostly we do), best of all we can choose what we do at home - no one coming in so if the carpet has sewing threads on it no need to rush to vacuum, tomorrow will do, we can read, chat, watch a film on TV, craft, paint - an endless list of choices! I really enjoyed reading this post, Happy T day, Chrisx
Living always requires choices, we can only hope we make good ones and change directions when we don't. That's real growth.
The cinnamon tea sounds delicious. I've been drinking regular tea but with a lot of fresh lemon squeezed in it. And I antagonize over decisions. I spend SO much time trying to figure out the perfect outcome. I guess it's part of our personality!
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