So, I’ve always been in charge of the Family Paperwork Ministry. I could give you all of my reasons why (I was faster, it was more of a priority for me, I sat at a desk, I had a pen), but you’d see right through me. You’d still call me a codependent enabler. Registering for school evolved into proofreading homework, which evolved into proofing college essays and now, overseeing tax returns and apartment leases. Today, with no small amount of trepidation, I put my 23 year old son in charge of finalizing the details of his new health insurance. My risk for the day—still feels scary, and it also feels just right.
How about you? What do you do for others that they could be doing for themselves? What would it feel like to let it go? Would it bring you more joy, perhaps in the long run?
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1 Linda // Oct 31, 2008 at 10:39 am
This is my risk: I’m going to write something in hopes of publication. It’s a tiny step. The piece will be submitted to The Sun magazine for a section called Readers Write, in which readers write about a personal experience with a given topic supplied by the magazine. The topic I chose is “Crushes”, deadline Dec. 1. If it’s chosen for publication, it will be in the June 2009 issue.
I used to want to write and have been encouraged since high school to pursue it. In my bookcase there are no less than 18 books on the subject of writing, most of them only partially read. Somewhere along the line I lost my enthusism for it, but now I’m thinking I might give it another go.
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