Oh come on, like C was going to be for anything else. And yes, I am once again buying this classic treat on clearance. Or at least, I'm planning to.
One thing I’ve done on my road to recovery is to treat myself to a hot chocolate every day. Usually in the early evening. If you’ve ever had abdominal surgery of any kind, you’ve likely had to lace your drinks with something to get your insides motivated. (We’re talking about vowels here, not writing. Likely, I’m over sharing. I kind of do that.) Well, my cocoa-a-go-go makes a treat out of something that really isn’t entirely pleasant.
That’s the real thing I want to talk about here. After bringing up beauty and how ideas are all around us, there comes a point where everything speeds back up and flashes past at life speed. No, that’s not a typo. I don’t mean light speed. We’re “bags of mostly water” according to a Star Trek TNG episode I haven’t watched in years and love. Life speed is the crazy pace at which we move through each day doing large amounts of things that aren’t very exciting. They are sometimes a slog and other times a joy, but we do them so much we don’t notice them until we slow down.
It is the very pressure of doing all these things that often brings our shoulders into a haunch. This is what triggers that twitching eye muscle. This is why our jaws ache and where the minutes of our days ticked off unnoticed.
And here I tie back to the letter of the day with a challenge. I am working on getting back to life speed. You are probably already way past me. When you find a crick in your neck you don’t remember getting or have nothing to check off on your to-do list and want to give up and collapse, I offer you this small suggestion, add some chocolate and see if it help make it more pleasant to get going.
I look forward to my cocoa-a-go-go, not for the a-go-go part. It’s the cocoa part I like and so I hold that part of what I’m doing in my mind. It’s a reward for taking care of myself. It makes it fun to do what I need to do. Guys, I’m savoring this on a daily basis. Maybe chocolate isn’t your thing, that’s cool, more for me, but something is your thing. And if you add that moment to savor into your have-to task, it’s not such a chore. It just might become a slowdown and savor moment from something you used to speed past just to get it over with. Or it might make something that is a slog to get through not quite suck so much.