One of the things I’ve touched on in a recent post is that I am trying my hardest to become more grounded and it involves getting back into a routine with life. This isn’t just having that cup of tea in the morning or getting up at the same time each day, but mainly it’s about having the right work/life balance, something I have always struggled to do.
For a while I have had the Reading Tweetup, a meetup twice a month by Reading tweeters. They are always fun and I fully recommend you come along if you live in the Reading area. It really isn’t creative though.
Last year I went along to two knitting groups in Reading – one on Tuesdays and another one on Wednesdays and I thoroughly enjoyed going, but felt that everyone else already knew each other so well and I wasn’t prepared to put in the effort to become a part of the group. The members in both were impossibly nice and friendly, but clearly some had known each other for a long time and with being tired from work or other commitments I quickly stopped going completely.
Fast forward to June this year and I started going again. It helped that @sahfenn was interested in going again, too, making not going a bit more of an issue even though I’m sure she wouldn’t have minded.
Since then there have been times I’ve struggled and was too tired from work or didn’t feel in the mood for it, but forcing myself to go was always rewarding and having gotten to know the other members a bit better has been brilliant. I was there last week when I was so tired I nearly fell asleep and I went today when all I wanted to do was go home and chill out.
The moral of the story is that nothing comes easy and that I have to do more things that I might not enjoy doing at the time, but that will ultimately turn out to be rewarding. Now I just need to apply that same reasoning to my Shine training, or rather lack thereof!
As for the title of the post that is the literal translation of a German idiom. ‘Getting over one’s inner swinedog’ or ‘den inneren Schweinehund überwinden’ means to ‘to overcome one’s inner temptations’, but the German version just sounds that bit cooler.
