Moving Mountains (the size of mole hills)

Alright, I gotta admit something.  I make mountains out of mole hills.  It’s a bad habit.  And I’ve gotten better with it over the years.  These days I look up at these behemoths covering the sun and think, damn that’s a big mole hill.  

And you know, it’s the dumbest thing because I could be freaking out for days and one day something will click and I’ll be like, “oh I could fix this in 10 minutes.”  Where was that “solve it in 10 minutes” idea a week ago?!  I’ve been freaking out for 7 days!  That’s 168 hours of distress for something that could have been resolved in 10 minutes!

How about when you have a 10 page paper due tomorrow?  You’ve been freaking out about it all semester.  Haven’t done a thing.  You had three months.  Then your brain is like, “I can knock this out in a couple hours and get you a B.”  

You ever sit there kind of embarrassed by how bad you reacted to something that turned out to be an easy fix?  Like nothing changed with you freaking out.  It didn’t affect anything.  You could have enjoyed the hell out of your week and then at the end of the week, fixed the problem in 10 minutes.  And how much more baddass you would have seemed.  You’re just chilling for three months, everyone is worried because you’ve done nothing for this paper.  Day before comes and boom B plus.  Wow, way to be a show off.

I have so much trouble with the not freaking out part.  But sometimes I just chill, and I get to be a show off in the end.  I start to realize what I’m capable of.  That despite negative impressions and unwarranted advice, I can do this.  

That 10 minutes, that couple hours.  That’s what you’re capable of.  So why freak out?  Spend the time learning, enjoying yourself, working on some other stuff.  Why not?  You know you can solve the problem.  

No mountain is bigger than the mole hill it becomes.  Believe in you’re own strength and dish it out.

All the best,

Andreas