"Any idiot can face a crisis. It's the day to day living that wears you out."
-Chekov
-Chekov
I read this quote in the book, "Captivating," the female version of "Wild at Heart." John Eldridge and his wife, Stasi co-wrote this one, it's good.
This quote made me stop and think. It's in reference to how women are tired and drained, but it's not from a life of shared adventures, it's from lives that are crammed with routine, chores, and hundreds of demands. It says that, "Somewhere between our youth and yesturday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure."
I think it can also be applied to men as well, we all have that sense of life being filled with demands that wear us out, instead of adventures that are fulfillingly tiring.
Any thoughts?
This quote made me stop and think. It's in reference to how women are tired and drained, but it's not from a life of shared adventures, it's from lives that are crammed with routine, chores, and hundreds of demands. It says that, "Somewhere between our youth and yesturday, efficiency has taken the place of adventure."
I think it can also be applied to men as well, we all have that sense of life being filled with demands that wear us out, instead of adventures that are fulfillingly tiring.
Any thoughts?
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I love this quote. I think I need to read this book. :) Sometimes I feel like I handle crises much more easily than day to day living. I think we are programmed to face hard stuff when it surprises us, but it takes more effort to consistently deal with everyday stuff.
Thanks for sharing, dear.
Did you get paid? :)
thanks for your thoughts E! You read the book "Mere Christianity", didn't you? If I remember right, that's the one Matt was raving about on our Haiti trip... that's one I want to read next.
About the paying... not yet... but last time it took a little while too. I didn't see them right away after, so I'm sure that is why. I'm sending them a "belize thank-you" so that will hopefully jog their memory :).
I have read "Mere Christianity," but the one Matt was talking about in Haiti was "A Severe Mercy." They're both good. "A Severe Mercy" talks a lot about the author's friendship with C.S. Lewis. Two other good ones are "Traveling Mercies" and "Blue Like Jazz." I have them if you want to borrow.
I'll be praying for your payment. :)
I would agree to some extent. Day to day living usually doesn't wear a person out, it can just deaden them to what life really is. I'm guessing that is what Chekov is getting at.
Crisis should not be trivialized as being easier than day to day life. I don't think any idiot can handle crisis. If that were the case we would have a lot less suicides, people would see themselves only as victims, and crisis would make everyone stronger. That just isn't the case.
Now you have my 2 cents.
i agree that crisis definitely should not be trivialized.
But I do think that crisises do make us stronger, they teach and ready us for the next one. It may be a completely different crisis, but I think I've learned how to better react to them.
To define crisis, i went to dictionary.com it says:
1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
2. An unstable condition, as in political, social, or economic affairs, involving an impending abrupt or decisive change.
2. A sudden change in the course of a disease or fever, toward either improvement or deterioration.
3. An emotionally stressful event or traumatic change in a person's life.
4. A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.
These are saying to me, that they are things that obviously are awful and hard, but it's at that time where you make some sort of decision and the initial "quake" if you will, is dealt with and subsides shortly there after. There's usually either a consequence or some sort of wrap up or close.
Of course, I'm not saying that it's the same with all crisis, because some of them turn into a battle that has to be fought over a long period of time, and that's when it turns into the "day to day" living... which wears you out.
But also, "day to day" living doesn't have to be wearing you out because of a crisis that happened previous. It can be all that other stuff listed in the original post and loads of other mundane to life sorts of things or whatever. I think I've made my point.
:)
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