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How do you transition from one thing to another?
“Whoever best describes the problem is the one most likely to solve it.” — Josh Kaufman
One of the hardest things about life is transitioning.
Transitioning is hard.
Which is probably why it’s called a transition. It means change. Change is difficult.
Location transitions, gender transitions, relationship transitions, job transitions, like how do you transition from one transition to another?
So my struggle is transitioning between tasks.
My brain is built to go from A to B and stay on B. Anymore, and I go from B back to A. I end up taking a few steps backwards, almost like a balancing act juggling balls, but I end up dropping all of them and tripping on my untied shoelaces.
It’s overwhelming.
Except sometimes I think I have the balls to juggle my way to success. Multitasking and “challenging” myself are a couple ways I try to force the process. I have a knack of choosing the hardest level.
The most complex way.
But it’s counterintuitive because I’m also a person who enjoys the rush.
I don’t mean the dopamine or adrenaline rush, which I do truly appreciate.
I mean literally just doing things as fast as possible.
It’s stimulating.
At the same time, I’m as slow as a turtle trudging along the road. It takes a great deal of energy to get me out of my shell.
What gives?
Transitioning between different states of being is difficult for me. My brain experiences this phenomenon called inertia.
I don’t mean the amount of gravitational stability that my brain has, but that might be what it feels like.
I simply mean its inability to transition seamlessly from one thing to another.
Sleep inertia, is what they call it, them sleepy-ologists.
I call it being a dud. A dudski just duds whatever a dudster duds.
