Bridget McNulty

All work and no play?

// September 11th, 2008 // Inspiration, Laughter, Life (and the living of it)

As you know, I’m a big fan of the ‘more play and not so much work’ philosophy in life.

But what happens when you actually have to work? When there’s a pile of work to be done, and nobody to do it but you? Too often, I think, we forget to take time out, and just put our heads down and plough through the work. Very enterprising, yes. But not very good for the soul.

I’ve been working craaazy hard this week (the pile of work was resembling a mountain!) and I noticed, yesterday, that I was feeling irritable and generally out of sorts. Why? Because I hadn’t given anything back – I wasn’t having any fun, or laughing enough, or relaxing at the end of a busy day… I wasn’t dancing or taking delight in all the wonderful things in my life, because I was too bogged down by work.

When I was younger, I was hooked on this series of books by a woman called SARK (visit her website here – www.planetsark.com ). I’ve grown out of a lot of her work, or perhaps grown INTO it, seeing as I don’t need as many reminders to live a passionate life and be creative as I did when I was writing school exams!
But there’s one quote of hers that has stuck with me for at least ten years… it’s about living a juicy life.

“If we rush around, never look closely, and practice self-denial, we will begin to feel dry and cracked for the lack of sweet wild moments that nourish us and those around us. The name for this is living juicy!”

I love that! When’s the last time you indulged in a sweet, wild moment? Are you living juicy?
Food for thought on a busy Thursday in an altogether busy month!