Sometimes I hide

I don't know about you but sometimes, I find that I am hiding from things that I should be doing like writing, making new budgets, new timetables and all other things that make my life function in an organised way.

For weeks, I pretend that these things can wait another day and then another until several weeks have passed and I am still kind of hiding.

It reminds me of my daughter who absolutely loves hide and seek. It doesn't matter that you can see the bulging duvet and know that she is there. She could care less that she is hiding behind your legs and giggling, or that she is responding to your " where could she be". To her, hide and seek is just a fun thing to do and she does it as often as she can.

Similarly, I enjoyed playing hide and seek as a child and remember a time I was playing it with my siblings and hid in this "cool" hiding spot ( an empty wardrobe noone was sure to look in). At first, it was kind of nice knowing I would win and stifling giggles as my siblings walked past the wardrobe believing that I couldn't possibly be there.

However, they soon got tired of looking for me and began to plead with me to come out but no, I wouldn't listen. So, they stopped calling and went on to do other things. It took me several minutes to realise I had been forgotten about.

Somebody else would have chosen that moment to come out and join in whatever new game they were playing but not me. I was going to make them find me. Needless to say, I fell asleep in this closet and when I was finally found, everyone's emotions had been stretched and what started off as fun, ended as a big mess.

So, as we hide from the things we ought to do maybe because it's fun at the beginning, we should keep in mind that only a few minutes separates the 'fun' part from the 'everyone's worked up because of you' part.