The school year is upon us! Like many of us either currently are experiencing or just remember from childhood, August is associate with back to school sales, stuffed backpacks, tired kids, and a change in focus. Life goes from being a series of whimsical, fly-by-your pants, led-by-desire, do-what-your-heart-feels-like days to regimented, scheduled, and non-stop. School beckons, and we go (or went!) willingly or not.
And it's the first few days that are the toughest. As Newton's First Law of motion so precisely states, "An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object at rest tends to stay at rest," we find we are just more evidence of that statement. (And before you go correcting me, I do know that is not the original verbiage of the law! It's just the way we learned it back in high school to make it stick).
Remember that most of us, come summer time, do (or did!) much less regimented activity than we did during the school year. We may be equally busy, but the "business" tends to be driven more by desire than by need. Therefore, it seems to take a different type of energy, for by the 2nd and 3rd days back at school we are wiped! We are exhausted, and we are tired. We want to sleep in all over again, even if it has only been 2 days!
But, like the law suggests, by the end of the first week or so we are back in business. Our energy level has acquired more stamina, we can accomplish more during the day, and we are backed to being used to living on a schedule. And although the initial change of pace was a challenge, the momentum built in that week period changes the nature of our state. We are now in motion. We are now expecting to stay in that state until June.
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