As women, nurses, and nurtures we tend to want to fix everyone. Patient’s who’s lives are broken by disease and illness. Family and friends, we see who’s lives are less than perfect we want to fix. And of course ourselves, each new wrinkle, extra pound or unqualified fact that led to a wrong decision. We want to fix and make perfect.
The concept of weatherproofing as it applies to a calm and more peaceful lifestyle of course is a metaphor, to explain one of our stressful ungrateful tendencies.
So lets think about this, just as we can weatherproof a home for winter or summer, by looking for cracks , leaks and obvious imperfections’, we also weatherproof our relationships , even our lives.
Simplistically, weatherproofing means that you are always on the look out for whatever needs to be fixed, repaired or changed in life. We are constantly stress our selves by trying to find the cracks and flaws of life, and either trying to fix them or worse point then out to others. The real stress here is not only does this tendency alienate you from friends, family and others but on a greater scale makes you feel very bad as well. It also makes you dwell on negative stuff and all you do there is attract more negative stuff back to you , adding even more stress.
Instead of trying to weatherproof other people or fix them, the calmer, more peaceful way is to enjoy them for their differences or quirks, what possibly attracted your to them in the first place. This gives life variety, relaxed meaning and of course diversity. You see a more relaxed life is never boring.
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