Sensibly, we give in a bit today, and take it very easy so I can try and shake the strange ear/stomach combination (probably totally unconnected to each other). Other than walking into town for a healthy lunch we stay in by the fire, and try to nurse my angrily complaining stomach back to health.
So I will take this opportunity to talk about the ongoing journey to attempt to 'not sweat the small stuff'. Because it really does seem to be much harder than it sounds.
It is still perfectly possible, whilst in another country, living in a completely different culture, if when surrounded by others with much bigger issues, to become weighed down by whether the latest blog entry has uploaded, when I will get an opportunity to email home, whether progress on Neville the Novel is fast enough and a hundred other tiny things which take any opportunity to crowd into my mind.
This kind of thing, living life from insignificant moment to insignificant moment, caught up in trivial worries and missing the bigger, brighter things, spending most of your time thinking only of things which you know you will not care about in a few hours, let alone a few days, weeks or months - is exactly what this blog, what this year, is all about.
Don't sweat the small stuff. But we seem to be hard wired to do it. Why is the small stuff just so sweaty?
Perhaps it is simply because life is easier to focus on via the trivialities. Life is big, perhaps we just can't comprehend it without breaking it up into bite sized sections.
The question is though, are these small things making up the bigger, more important issues, building them up bit by bit to guide our attention gently towards them - or are they acting as an inferior decoy?
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