Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 2: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 2: tip is to remember it is just a phase. The
Speaker 2: terrifying and reassuring truth about time is that it keeps
Speaker 2: passing no matter what you do. So for a great
Speaker 2: many things. Most likely this too shall pass. If you
Speaker 2: can hang on, soon enough, you'll be dealing with something different.
Speaker 2: I wrote this on a day in which I spent
Speaker 2: quite a lot of the morning dealing with the mercurial
Speaker 2: whims of my toddler. It is really no fun.
Speaker 1: To be asked for a waffle, to procure that waffle,
Speaker 1: and then to be hit because the todd no longer
Speaker 1: wants the waffle. What kept me bumbling through all this
Speaker 1: ordeal was remembering that my older children don't do that.
Speaker 1: They do other things, but they do not hit me
Speaker 1: for bringing the waffle they asked for. Even if I
Speaker 1: am being smacked by my toddler for bringing breakfast incorrectly,
Speaker 1: I will not be being smacked by a toddler forever.
Speaker 1: My little guy has already moved out of some tough phases.
Speaker 1: For instance, a blogger I read frequently noted that her
Speaker 1: toddler was waking up at four forty five am. I
Speaker 1: have experienced that many times, but knock on wood, I
Speaker 1: haven't for the past few months. Basically, everyone is sleeping
Speaker 1: through the night in my house almost every night. Those
Speaker 1: middle of the night wake ups and early wake ups,
Speaker 1: they were a phase. They were a long phase, but
Speaker 1: they were a phase, and now I am in a
Speaker 1: different phase. Of course, there are good things that are
Speaker 1: just a phase. Two, snuggling newborns, the few weeks when
Speaker 1: the flowers are blossoming in spring, it will be spring again,
Speaker 1: but not for a while, and each season of peak
Speaker 1: blossoms is fleeting. That's why I decided to travel to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Twice during the March week when the cherry
Speaker 1: blossoms were at their peak billowy whiteness. I knew it
Speaker 1: was just a phase. Soon all those cherry blossom petals
Speaker 1: would be like snow on the ground. Best to enjoy
Speaker 1: it while I could. It is just a phase. Perhaps
Speaker 1: that idea sounds depressing, but I really do believe we
Speaker 1: have to view this truth in its entirety approached well.
Speaker 1: This truth allows us to be calm about truly unpleasant
Speaker 1: things because well, they probably won't last forever. We can
Speaker 1: also decide to savor moments that we know will soon
Speaker 1: be in the past. We can decide to enjoy what
Speaker 1: we can. Holding these two sides of the same truth together,
Speaker 1: we can live in and enjoy the moment, even if
Speaker 1: we know that lots of moments aren't entirely blissful. So
Speaker 1: if you have something you are not enjoying right now,
Speaker 1: can you picture yourself on the other side of it?
Speaker 1: At what point in the future do you reasonably expect
Speaker 1: you won't be dealing with this? And if there is
Speaker 1: something good in your life that you suspect will not
Speaker 1: last forever, which is really everything at least in this world,
Speaker 1: what can you do to savor it now? Make that
Speaker 1: extra trip to see a friend, go camping with a
Speaker 1: kid who wants you to go camping with them, even
Speaker 1: if it is a bother. Someday it won't be possible
Speaker 1: to go camping together. It is just a phase. We
Speaker 1: may as well make the most of it. In the meantime.
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to make
Speaker 1: them the most of our time.
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