Slow progress is still progress

[yvannairie]

I vacuumed the house for the first time in literal years, and now I'm stuck with my carpets flopped over the balcony because I don't have the physical strength to wag them hard enough to make the dust and dandruff fall off and I don't want to have to vacuum the carpets after vacuuming the floor.

I could just throw them off the balcony and go wag them against the rug pole but that would require walking and I can just take half-hour breaks from carpet-waggling to let them air out. I actually can just clean the apartment for the entire day, how about that.

Comments

[cassini]

[nice work on getting done what you could do - solidarity, i did laundry and dishes last night as well as being hooked to the computer, and cleaned the litter tray. that's pretty impreesive for me. i gotta get back on the recyclables and sweeping the house, but we can see the difference with what i did, so. result ]

[yvannairie]

I'm in the same situation -- the books need reshelving, I need to go toss the recyclables, and there's still a big pile of Unsorted(tm) on my floor (which I piled on the couch while cleaning lol) but it does look a lot cleaner.

I've also been having slow progress on the... ex-friend problem... so that also feels productive.

[cassini]

[that's good to hear. i feel there's a bit of truth in the 'rising tide lifts all boats' metaphor that really applies to mental health. it does happen and it can be quite frankly overwhelming, and so we don't always get any real benefit from it, but at other times little bits of progress happen slowly across the board, in a manageable way, and we can use the momentum ]