Does anyone else have calendar fatigue? It’s not a real thing, technically, but we coined the term to describe the feeling one gets upon filling their calendar. There could be on thing in the day, a reminder like “call dentist,” but it adds to the day, making it look like you are busy, which then makes you feel busy. Before you know it, you are overwhelmed by what you have to do this week, even if it is just call the dentist on Tuesday, clean the fridge Thursday and Bible study Friday.
Calendar fatigue seems to hit me when I have the least power to do anything about it. I’ll have a very busy week, or I’m going somewhere Saturday, and all the sudden it’s like I have eight million things to do when 75% of them are things I do every week anyway.
Two weeks ago I had THE BUSIEST Thursday I have ever had. I was getting ready to go to YQ, and my to-do list was long than my packing list. (Which really isn’t saying much. I pack pretty light. Some people stress-pack, as my sister dubbed it, and fill the bag with the everything but the kitchen sink, but I under-pack when I’m in a hurry. I always forget my toothbrush or something. But I digress!) I was running hither and thither all day long, from work to music to making supper to packing to showering to making lunch for Friday to school to grad stuff…it was a long day. I think I walked more Thursday than I did Saturday at YouthQuake.
That day was crazy, but I wasn’t even calendar fatigued. I was busy for one day, but I wasn’t overwhelmed by life.
It seems that sometimes I can press on through the legitimately crazy things in my life, but the small things that add to a few random commitments are what stress me out. That makes no sense. But in this ongoing theme of busyness walking life’s trail, I find it is important to observe these sorts of things in my life and gain a little perspective. Jesus was crazy-busy too. The people followed Him everywhere, and He still managed to love them. If Jesus loved people in the middle of crazy, I will (try) too.
A little perspective goes a long way.
