Running on empty, I barely made it to the gas station at the bottom of the hill. True story!! I had forgotten my dad’s instruction to always fill up for a long trip and as soon as your tank reaches 1/4 empty. This was many years ago as I made a trip to my home in Kelowna from Victoria, B.C.
A car has a gas gauge - what part of my body or mind would be the equivalent of a car’s gas gauge to tell me when to stop and fill up. Tired behind eyes that can barely see, feeling a kind of shaky that wants your feet up and your bottom down, just plain cranky ………. When do we listen to our bodies, to our voices, to our minds. We can look at the numbers on our car’s dashboard, but it is only our senses that we can rely on to tell us to put down the knitting, turn off not just the TV but everything, slow down our pace coming from work. Just as a car depends on it’s owner to keep the oil and gas topped up, our bodies and, yes, our minds, depend on whether we respond to our senses when we are running on empty ~ or not.
“There’s just something obvious about emptiness,
even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”
~ Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
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