I was going to write a post about things I HAVE to accept l, in a grumpy way. But I am changing them into things I GET to accept.
1. I get to learn to deal with my sensitive GI. I had to take antibiotics last week to get rid of UTI, which disturbed my digestive balance. I know that my digestive system is weak and sensitive so I should expect that to happen and learn to deal with it when it happens. I’m drinking ginger tea, and put hot compress when I feel stomach discomfort. I remove anything cold in my diet, either drink or food, especially fruit. Avoid spicy and hard to digest food. I know once I do these I’ll be fine in a few days. I am aware of how privileged I am to have access to modern and traditional medicines to know my body well and have the tools to manage it.
2. I get to appreciate bad run days. Due to digestive discomfort, my easy 5 miles felt harder than it should be. The experience of having these type of runs remind me to enjoy good runs even more, and be less stressed when bad runs happen because they are temporary.
3. I get to argue with the girls about minutes during piano practice. The rule is that Sofia plays 40 min per day, 30 min for new homework, 10 min her favorite songs. Lizzy plays 30 min. Sometimes they argue with me whether they played one minute extra or less. It makes me mad that they focus on the minutes and not the experience of it. At least we get to argue about it instead of not being able to afford them to play, or they refuse to play altogether.
4. I get to complain about our helper. My helper’s sister is just not the one I would hire. At least, I know I’m helping my helper and it’s just a few weeks left. At least she can do loads of laundry and keep the house clean.
5. I get to refuel my body with real food. I never know when I’d get a hunger attack after a long run. Sometimes it’s the day after, sometimes it’s a few days after. When it happens, I am paralyzed if I don’t get some food in the system. I got some local snacks (rice-based) when it happened during working hours. At least I know that my metabolism is working properly (sometimes I wonder how come I had zero appetites after 3 hrs running), and I had access to real food in our office building.
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I have a lot of memories of arguing over practicing piano… My mom would set a timer in the kitchen and I would cheat a bit and move it forward a few minutes (it wasn’t digital). She didn’t pick up on it, though. I think I did that when I was required to practice for an hour which I just hated even though I loved piano! My siblings would also complain about me practicing because our piano was in the living room so it would bother anyone watching tv. I hoped that when I had a piano, it would not go in the living room but that is the only place it fits in our house!
I hope your GI issues get better soon. My boys struggled with that big time when they were on antibiotics for ear infections. I tried probiotics but you are supposed to take them at a different time of day from the antibiotics so it was logistically challenging with them being in daycare. I was so glad when they got tubes and put that behind him!
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I try to do that reframe trick too but sometimes it doesn’t work. Haha. It’s like my brain knows what I’m trying to do. 😆 Hope your “complaints” 😉 all get better soon. The GI issues sound very annoying and like something that would definitely make running harder…
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Jess Sims says it best “you don’t have to, you get to” and I try to apply this to most situations in life! We’re so lucky to have ‘bad runs’, when others can’t run at all 😉
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