Amidst The Turmoil

I find it very powerful how your knowledge about something gets to a different level after you experience that thing. Before this week, I always thought slow living only had to do with walking in nature, waking up on a day you have nothing to do and then meditating. And in fact, that was all that I was doing. But this week was really an eye opener.

I already knew this year was going to be hectic due to my itinerary but this week took me by surprise. On Tuesday, I had a call from Accra-Ghana to report for an important work meeting the next day, Wednesday. And that call wasn’t supposed to come until about a month later because the documents submission happened just on Monday. So this should tell you how unprepared I was.

Everything started with the call. On a normal day, I would have just freaked out and then call my mom to cry. But this time, I sat down quietly and began listing all that I had to do with the very important ones on top of the list. I didn’t let everything happening cloud what I had to do.

Since it was night time already, the plan was to pick the early morning flight but after checking the booking page, the morning flight was going to delay me. So I sat down again and listed the options I had. After reminding myself of how important the meeting was, I decided to go at night by bus.

I did all that I had to do and set off around 9pm for a 4 hour journey. Thankfully, I got there around 1:15am and then got some sleep before the meeting at 9am.
I wasn’t even prepared for the meeting but I did my best and made sure not to rush with my presentation.

When I was returning back home after my meeting, it dawned on me, that hey, this is probably the most stressful thing you’ve experienced in your life but you were so calm and collected throughout. There was no panicking and no anxiety of any sort. Even after everything, I wasn’t overwhelmed. Just that thought made me shed a tear.

That was when it dawned me that of course, there was so much chaos around me and though the situation kind of required me to fold, I didn’t. I created my own margins and made sure to color in between the lines one at a time. And all that while, I was just chill, doing my best and always starting with the most important things on the list. With how I approached this week, I can confidently say this has been one of the best weeks I’ve had so far.