Being “less important” is liberating!
Let me explain.
Whether we like it or not, our absence won’t result in the world falling apart. That might be hard to hear because we all want to feel important. But what if, instead of feeling offended about our replaceability, we felt liberated?
Last week I was mostly absent from my life. My back went out, and I spent the majority of my time horizontal in the bedroom.
And life carried on!
At first, I tried to help. I didn’t trust that things would be okay without me. It wasn’t until my husband demanded I stop that I let myself fade into the background and become “unimportant.”
Not only did the world stay intact, it chugged along smoothly! Plus, I had the time and space I needed to heal.
Sometimes we can get so caught up in the busyness of life that we forget how to stop or that it’s even okay to stop.
Being “less important” doesn’t mean we’ve become irrelevant. It means that we’ve learned how to find balance, to trust that other people can take the reins, and it will be okay.
Lately, I’ve had a lot of time on my hands to think. Part of that time was spent kicking myself for delegating tasks to my husband instead of doing them myself. But the latter part of my week was spent appreciating a slower pace of life and accepting that I’m not as important as I thought.
Knocking myself from that pedestal was liberating. After I got over my indignation, all that was left was freedom and the little bumps on the ceiling because I was still horizontal.
As I ease back into vertical life, I’m trying to hold onto this revelation: Being important is lovely. Being free is even better.
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