balancing act
I love to watch Cirque du Soleil perform. Their ability to keep themselves suspended in the air defies gravity. I envy that.
I struggle to keep my life afloat somedays. Juggling children’s needs, friend’s needs, lover’s needs, professional needs, and household needs is a never ending slight of hand game, robbing someone to appease another, stealing out a meeting early to make another one late. I continue to move through the intricate steps of the routine making everyone happy with only a vague sense of disappointment in their minds.
The pressure started in the 80s when I used to watch the Enjoli commercial where the woman did EVERYTHING.
Why do women put such pressure on themselves? I know I am still a people pleaser (though I do say no more often than I used to….). I hate to be unable to accomplish ANYTHING. Oy vey. It’s time for someone to make ME some bacon.
Whoa! Blast from the past with that commercial. Funny that the named audience in that ad is the man who will buy the perfume for this do-everything woman. What a confusing mess of ideas?
Yes!
Reminds me of Candice’s post (http://candicecobb.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/missing-out/), and my own (http://beccawoodard.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/my-nephew-his-dog/).
I don’t notice many posts like this from men…