[AKN #84] The Work We Do To Avoid The Work We Must Do
LAUGH: Three Quick Laughs, LOVE: Watch This Dog Play Setter
Sup homies?
The other day I had an unsettling experience.
I went to a small plates restaurant and due to ordering inefficiency by our table we ended up getting a cheese plate delivered at the end of the meal.
Why was this unsettling?
Because cheese is a beginning of the meal activity and everyone knows it.
Eating cheese for dessert is like putting your socks on then putting your shoes on and then putting another pair of socks on over the top of your shoes.
For decades, I’ve been receiving dessert menus with a cheese plate option and every. single. time. I said no.
It’s easily the most out of place option on any dessert menu anywhere.
Sure, I equally scoff at the espresso dessert option, but I can respect that some people need a little post meal pick me up.
Like think about Italian mob bosses. They just ate a bunch of lasagna, but now they gotta go do a bunch of murder.
Espresso fixes that.
But a fucking cheese plate?
It has neither form nor function.
So when it came out, I did what anyone in my situation would do.
I ate it. Because I never get enough food at a small plates restaurant.
But I keep going back because I’m a masochist who likes to lie to himself that one bite of each dish is “the perfect amount of food.”
On to the newsletter!
LIVE: The Work We Do To Avoid The Work We Must Do
Every week I realize my mind is sabotaging me.
Sometimes it’s obvious like convincing me I can’t go to the gym today because I have a “big” deadline.
Other times it’s more subtle like making myself “busy” so I can eventually say “I can’t do [INSERT TASK I NEED TO DO]…look at all this other stuff I have to do!”
The strategies change, but one constant remains: my mind will do whatever it takes to avoid discomfort.
As much as I remind myself of this truism, it always takes a moment of introspection to realize this is what is happening.
Especially because the work that is hard to me is changing and evolving.
Sometimes I avoid writing this newsletter because an article is uncomfortable to write.
Sometimes I use writing this newsletter as an excuse to avoid another difficult task.
How do I know the difference between those two?
Self awareness.
Only I know what I’m avoiding.
Only I can ever call me on my shit and change it.
I’m guessing you can relate.
LAUGH: Three Quick Laughs
Here are 3 quick jokes which made me laugh this week.
Hopefully they will make you laugh too :)
LOVE: Watch This Dog Play Setter
Take a break from watching the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and watch this video of a dog playing volleyball.
CLOSING TIME
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