Unzipped

Boone Hall Butterfly Pavilion, South Carolina

Hi.

Hi, hi.

Last time we spoke I was in this strange, but not-entirely-unusual-for-me place of feeling totally and completely paralyzed. Not, like, technically (but, I certainly wasn’t getting my steps in every day), but this overwhelming feeling of being…stuck. I know perfectly well how to run, it just feels like my feet are stuck in cement.

Well, turns out, perhaps the most efficient way for me to get un-stuck is to have my legs kicked out from under me with a not-at-all graceful face plant. And with that, I unzipped my paralyzed suit, stepped out, and my mind and body quickly remembered how to fly, how to run.

Like anyone who hasn’t been working out regularly, it will take a little while for me to fight back the atrophied muscles and build up my endurance, but soon I’ll be running a 6-minute mile again.

Uh, that’s a big huge lie. I have never once run a 6-minute mile, nor do I intend to. I’m more of a 12-minute mile kind of girl.

Also, I’m not really talking about running here. That’s a life metaphor. But it’s also kind of factual. In the last week I’ve been to the gym 4 times and that is 4 times more than I have shown up in the previous three months. I’m making lists and plans like a madwoman and finally feel like I can breathe a little better.

I know that kind of vaguely talking about feeling stuck, and then bringing up a kind of horrible running metaphor for being un-stuck is not exactly blog du jour, but this is me, the good and the bad and the ugly and the broken, all just trying to make it through.

10 thoughts on “Unzipped

    1. Feisty Harriet Post author

      Oh my gosh, but for real! I knew I was “in” it…but I didn’t realize how much of a difference being on the outside would be, how DIFFERENT it would feel!

      xox

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    1. Feisty Harriet Post author

      Ha! I like how you think! Cool and breezy…inside…sitting directly in front of the air conditioner…possibly while slurping a milk shake. Ahem. 🙂

      xox

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  1. Jen

    Huzzah! Now you are a beautiful butterfly and everything will be better! (Does anyone else remember Heimlich from “A Bug’s Life” or is that just me? I loved him. Still do.)

    But srsly, I’m glad things are moving again. Feeling stuck is theee worst.

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    1. Feisty Harriet Post author

      Oh, I love “A Bug’s Life” SO much!! Heimlich is perfection in every way.

      xox

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