The Great Meltdown

You are sitting there on the couch watching TV, your program ends so you turn off your old RCA. The room is dark and all you can see is the light that is in the middle of the screen. It starts out bright but as the seconds flick by the circle of light begins to fade and decrease in size until it is nothing but a pin point of light. And then it happens...the light goes out...meltdown is complete.

I'm not usually sitting on the couch but running around with a list as long as my left arm (it's longer than my right) trying to get everything done yet maintain balance in my life. It always starts out with just a few things and then other exciting, challenging things come along and I add them to the list and before I know it I have deadlines to meet, promises to fulfill, responsibilities to follow through on and my own expectations for myself looming all around me. I try so hard to "keep it together" and then when I fail or get behind the pressure increases and things get forgotten or misplaced and the light before me begins to get smaller and not as bright.

I struggle to keep my head above water but the vicious cycle has gone too far it would seem and my pin point of light is about to be extinguished.