This morning I got downstairs and not only realized I had forgotten to shave but that I had also forgotten to take the vitamins I bought. the ones I left by my bathroom sink upstairs so that I wouldn’t forget.
It is still early on a Saturday morning and I do have to go back upstairs to shave and brush my teeth, but I would prefer to have done all that before coming downstairs. I don’t know why I forget that so often. My brain is geared to get up and go. That is what I did for so many years that it is hard to get it to slowdown.
I am ready to get up, get dressed, and get out the door. But now I hardly ever go out the door anymore. I get up, wait around, help get the kids ready, and then if it is a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday I go.
That is where we are and what we’re doing. I am still geared for one direction, but am trying to shift to another. A slower get up, get ready, relax, then go. That is the flow we have and need now, and in the struggle between the two my morning meds are being forgotten.
There have been a lot of studies on the formation of habits, and how long it takes for a habit to form. I am trying to get into the grove of taking these vitamins because whenever I have tried before I have always simply forgot. The habit ended because I couldn’t remember to keep it up.
I don’t want to see that happen this time or for this to not be part of my morning routine, and at times I don’t even know why I care. Do the vitamins really help? I have no idea. I don’t think they hurt. Who the hell knows. I guess we’ll find out one day.
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