My hubby and I recently had a
little boy and although he is the light of our life, joy of the world, beacon
of ... yeah, you get my point, right? We love him, but sometimes we debate
about putting him in a cardboard box and posting him to Alaska.
I’m kidding of course, but when
all he does is sleep through the day and stay up all night, it tends to grate
on your sensibilities. So, as you can imagine (since I do the night shift), I
can become incredibly overwhelmed at 2am. With little to no sleep in my pocket,
looking down into the beady eyes of my wide awake infant forces me to find some
sort of motivation not to glue his eyes shut. Yes, we expected this to happen.
Babies can’t sleep all the time, right? I mean they have to poop at 4am and wee
on your nightgown post shower or spew on you right as you put them down for
that seemingly unattainable sleep, but come on ...
Being overwhelmed is part of
the job description.
So how do you get motivated?
Well, you may think I might be
motivated to push our son under the bed until morning in the hopes I can’t hear
him under there, but on the contrary, I consider the ramifications. No, not
child abuse allegations (although my headspace undoubtedly deserves it
sometimes), but the ramifications of simply not being motivated enough to enjoy
this moment of fleetingness. He won’t stay an infant forever. He will soon
become a toddler and start sleeping through the night, then a young boy who
picks his nose and sniffs his bum. Then of course he’ll be a teenager and I’ll
probably want to kill him all over again.
The point is, motivation
doesn’t have to be a gimmick or an affirmation to pull you through a task. It
can simply be the idea that you’ll miss just one perfect moment amongst the
clutter of imperfect ones – the reason I keep my eyes open at 2am ... just in
case he smiles.
Kristy š
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