This is what I wanted. Source: Pinterest
With a new found courage for my baby blue nails, now all I had to do was find the window in which to do it, pretty simple, right?
Wrong!
What followed was a series of events and stuff coming up that just couldn’t let me have that one hour to get my nails done. It was a bunch of things that happened on the days I wanted to get these baby blue nails:
- Nail tech was out of town
- I had guests to prepare for
- I had guests to clean up after
- I had to wait for the gasman to come and do the fill up
- My friend called and really wanted to see me the same day
- I had stuff due
- I had meetings
- I had to take someone to the airport
See, these baby blue nails, this very trivial thing that I am certain life could have perfectly continued without was the first thing I would have been doing just for myself in a minute. Everything I mentioned the guests, the friend, the meetings, the deadlines…all this involved other people.
The reason I had to do these things and show up for them was partly out of respect for the other people involved. There was no way I could keep all these people waiting or dissatisfied for a simple set of baby blue nails.
But isn’t that the gag? That there will always be someone to cater to, something to attend to; all these things much, much more important than a set of baby blue nails that I won’t have in the next couple of weeks.
Yet I knew the little joy that these insignificant nails would give me whenever I glanced at them for the time that I had them. So I did what I had to.
On a day that I had a lineup of meetings and I had to be stuck to my desk for most of the day, I made it a point to get up before my normal time, dash to the nail lady, get my little baby blues done and be back at my desk. It took very little out of my day.
And in the few days that I have had the set, I look at it a couple of times and I am proud of the nails, they give me a little of burst of joy. It is nowhere near enough to solve all of my problems but it reminds me that in the middle of the chaos that is currently my life, I had about an hour to do something that was just for me and my vanity.
A few take-aways from this analogy about a set of nails that I am sure I won’t remember by Easter:
- Life will always demand to be lived; something will always need to be done
- If you don’t create time for the things that make your little heart dance, your little heart won’t dance.
- When you schedule your obligations, make sure you’re on that list and pretty high up that list. And last
- Colour your nails however you want, it literally does not matter.
