I have always been good at adapting to any situation in order to get something done, and I've not noticed any change there. I have, however, noticed a recent tendency to get flustered if one of my daily routines goes caddywonky on me. This seems to be especially true about my morning routine, especially my morning workout.
This morning, I had already had a really bad day before 0600. I woke up too early, even for me, and could not go back to sleep. I found out that I had left a pen in the wash, ruining 2 good work shirts and 2 out of my three favorite soccer tshirts. I fell behind in my schedule and had to rush to the gym. And then, when I got to the gym I realized that I had forgotten to bring my mp3 player, my heart monitor watch/receiver's battery was dead, and I also forgotten the index card which has that day's workout info.
For some reason, these last three things threw me for a loop. I **did not** want to do my weight workout without my music, and it affected me so that I struggled with the workout much more than I should have. I should not have been discombobulated so much by these relatively unimportant happenstances, but I was.
And so, I have to examine myself and wonder why-- am I getting more set in my ways as I age? Have I become so schedule-oriented and organized that I cannot handle such minor glitches in my daily life? Is the Curmudgeon in me just around the corner of life?
I am going to enroll in a Krav Maga course soon, and one of the things that one must do in combat or martial arts is to maintain a calm, capable demeanor, ready to scan, decide and adjust to whatever threat comes along.
I guess I better start working on doing just exactly that in my personal life and its routines....
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Curmudgeon around the corner
Posted by Rob Welch
On 8/12/2009 03:26:00 PM
A coworker of mine has a phrase that I have adopted as one of my favorites... "Semper Gumby". Latin (kind of) for "Always flexible". I've always thought of myself as adaptive, not being set in my ways-- at least not set enough so that the disruption of those ways causes undue consternation.
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Hey Curmudgen, I've been caddy-whompus and discombobulated this summer too. Perhaps we could get together and compare notes. I'm thinking about coming up to your neck of the woods for some personal R & R in a few weeks, and the Angels will be in town. It'd be great to see our old buddy Pudge and so forth. Think that'd be a possibility? - Theowonk
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