WEBVTT - In a few hours, this will be over

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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<v Speaker 1>Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's tip is that anxiety producing events can sometimes be

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<v Speaker 1>kept in context by reminding yourself that they will eventually

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<v Speaker 1>be over. It won't be long before you will be

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<v Speaker 1>viewing the event in the rear view mirror, so best

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<v Speaker 1>to enjoy what you can of it while remembering how

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<v Speaker 1>small it is in the grand scheme of things. A

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<v Speaker 1>few weeks before I recorded this episode, my family traveled

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<v Speaker 1>on vacation together. Right before we had a series of

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<v Speaker 1>other events that required a lot of coordination. Transporting many

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<v Speaker 1>people in their stuff anywhere can be challenging, and our

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<v Speaker 1>home bound trip from vacation involved making a ferry, navigating

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<v Speaker 1>customs at an airport, entertaining a toddler on a plane

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<v Speaker 1>for more than four hours, and then driving ninety minutes

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<v Speaker 1>to get home at midnight. The next morning, which was

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<v Speaker 1>a Sunday, my oldest son and my husband needed to

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<v Speaker 1>get back on a plane to get him to camp

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<v Speaker 1>for four weeks, and I needed to turn myself around

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<v Speaker 1>to get on a cross country flight that evening to

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<v Speaker 1>give a speech Monday morning. I figured out the obvious parts,

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<v Speaker 1>like getting child care for that Sunday. To cover the

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<v Speaker 1>time between when I left for the airport and when

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<v Speaker 1>my husband got home. We packed my son's camp bag

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<v Speaker 1>before we left on vacation and did his laundry while

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<v Speaker 1>on vacation, so he was ready to go. When you

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<v Speaker 1>get home at twelve ten am and leave again at

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<v Speaker 1>nine am. This is key. In any case, none of

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<v Speaker 1>this felt like it was going to be particularly easy

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<v Speaker 1>or pleasant to get through, so I did spend some

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<v Speaker 1>time worrying about how everything was going to go. But

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<v Speaker 1>as I thought about this on the Friday before our

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<v Speaker 1>Saturday and Sunday travels, I had a few thoughts. First,

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<v Speaker 1>in seventy two hours, I would be through the roughest

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<v Speaker 1>patch of it. Most likely we would have gotten home

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<v Speaker 1>from vacation. Most likely my kid would be successfully delivered

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<v Speaker 1>to camp. Most likely I would have made my cross

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<v Speaker 1>country journey and would be ensconced in my hotel. Seventy

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<v Speaker 1>two hours passes quite quickly. It is a limited amount

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<v Speaker 1>of time. I might find the next seventy two hours

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<v Speaker 1>not entirely calm or tranquil, but soon would be over.

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<v Speaker 1>And the truth is, there were a few things to enjoy.

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<v Speaker 1>For instance, my husband and I had dinner on the

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<v Speaker 1>beach at a fancy restaurant our last night of vacation

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<v Speaker 1>when we had child care for the kids. That seventy

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<v Speaker 1>two hours was going to contain some rough patches, but

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<v Speaker 1>I would also see the sun set over clear turquoise water.

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<v Speaker 1>I knew I would probably mostly enjoy my second plane flight,

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<v Speaker 1>which would be solo, much different than flying with a toddler. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>the sense of contrast might make the first flight more

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<v Speaker 1>bearable and heighten the enjoyment of the second. I would

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<v Speaker 1>get to sleep one night in my own bed, which

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<v Speaker 1>is my favorite place to sleep. I might even have

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<v Speaker 1>a few moments to play the piano or sip a

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<v Speaker 1>cup of coffee in my own kitchen in between experiencing

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<v Speaker 1>with the St. Thomas and Newark and Philadelphia and Las

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<v Speaker 1>Vegas airports have to offer. In any case, the time passed,

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<v Speaker 1>and here we are. All of this is in the

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<v Speaker 1>rear view mirror. We made the ferry. The toddler was

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<v Speaker 1>both exuberant and ornery on the flight. But the flight

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<v Speaker 1>is now over, as all time in the past is

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<v Speaker 1>now over. What loomed large as future anxiety is now

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<v Speaker 1>just memory. That is how it is with everything. I

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<v Speaker 1>think this mindset of recognizing how short the upcoming patch

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<v Speaker 1>of time will be can help keep it in perspective.

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<v Speaker 1>In seventy two hours, this will be over, and then

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<v Speaker 1>it is on to the rest of my life. So

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<v Speaker 1>it goes with many things, as in in two hours,

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<v Speaker 1>this tense meeting will be over one way or another.

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<v Speaker 1>By the end of today, I will most likely have

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<v Speaker 1>a decision, and if not today, by tomorrow. In forty

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<v Speaker 1>eight hours, this agonizing decision will be in the past

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<v Speaker 1>and I will be dealing with the outcome. In forty

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<v Speaker 1>five minutes, I will have the result of this test.

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<v Speaker 1>In a week, I will be home from this long trip.

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<v Speaker 1>Time will keep passing. It always does, nothing can stop it,

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<v Speaker 1>which is simultaneously terrifying and comforting. The terrifying part is

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<v Speaker 1>a different matter, and maybe we will address that in

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<v Speaker 1>a different episode, But for today we can focus on

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<v Speaker 1>the comforting part. Since this time will be in the

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<v Speaker 1>past eventually, why not see what parts can be relished.

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<v Speaker 1>There is almost always something focusing on that. As the

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<v Speaker 1>time keeps ticking, mix most things feel more feasible. We

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<v Speaker 1>see happy glints on a river that soon it's just

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<v Speaker 1>water under the bridge. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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