My body is smarter than my brain and I had gotten out of the habit 0f listening to it,, but yesterday I could not ignore. (if you didn't read yesterday's blog do so now).
After being up for a f ew hours I collapsed. Crawled back to bed, couldn't drag myself anywhere, Immediately called Darlene and cancelled out on lunch. I spent the day sleeping on and off. Felt pretty normal by dinner time.
The message came thru pretty clearly. I do NOT want to be on that board. I do NOT want the label of disabled. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam-I-Am!
So, today I will make the phone call and say no thank you. Oh, and I didn't make my Kiwanis peanut sales calls either and I am not going to.....I am retired, people!
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- Greatest joy; Amelia & Greta. Proudest accomplishment: the men my sons are. the only things that matter: health, family and friends.
3 comments:
Yay! It is Options loss, but really, I'm happy you are choosing yourself and your health. You ARE retired. Knowing you, you will ALWAYS be busy. You will always serve in a leadership roll. But no more boards... there are other ways to lead.
I'm also glad you decided not to do it. I'm a person who has a hard time saying "No" to things that give me the opportunity to serve and hopefully "improve" the situation by doing so, but eventually I was too busy and too tired and with a new baby, I realized I had to just say no. There will be others that can do the job - the world was not counting on me - a hard thing to come to grips with!
It's all about boundaries, ladies, boundaries! No is only a two letter word, but oh so hard to say. When I do, I feel in control, a good feeling all the way around.
I'm happy you said thanks but no thanks. Good for you.
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