What Have I Learned Today?

Daily writing prompt

What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

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So I had to think about this prompt. What have I learned recently? A new skill?

Let me start by saying what I used to tell my kids when they would say “I KNOW” when telling them something. My reply was “Why do you get out of bed every day if you know EVERYTHING?” If you are one of my kids reading this it will either make you laugh or get mad.

I still say this is true. I personally get out of bed everyday hoping I get to learn at least one new thing. It could be as simple as knowing when to use “Seen or Saw”. It could be as complicated as learning a new computer program. Regardless, please keep an open mind to learning that one new lesson or skill.

My learned lessons of late are slowing down. That for me is very hard to do! God in his infinite wisdom forces me now and then. This time it was a simple stretch when I got out of bed yesterday. Well, I didn’t make it out of bed easily. I stretched and pulled a muscle in my back. I was screaming in pain for most of the day.

My husband came home for working on a shed project and saw that nothing had improved and took me to the walk in clinic. The Dr. said it was an easy fix. I had pulled a muscle in my back. He gave me a RX for pain and an anti-inflammatory. Guess what that made me do? Slow down!

As I sit writing this there are many things I know I should be doing but the Dr. said no. I’m supposed to be giving the muscle time to heal. So here I am learning to slow down again. Some may even call it a skill.