Time Out!

During the Christmas holiday, our family got sick.  Really sick!  I suspect that we got well acquainted with the Norovirus that was making it's way through the Quinte region.  For 4 days I didn't get out of my pajamas.  My first thoughts (after vomiting for hours on end) were "Oh, great, 4 days of my vacation days have been ruined!"
The fact is, though, that anytime I have experienced an unexpected illness or injury, something fabulous happens. Typically, I am one of those people who never sits still.  Always multi-tasking, puttering, only stopping long enough to sip a coffee or answer an email.  When I am forced to be still, I tend to read something I wouldn't usually have time to read or watch something that I wouldn't typically be interested in.  I learn something new and valuable about a topic or myself and I'm always a more enlightened person at the end of my forced confinement.
Those 4 days on the couch were really necessary in my life right now.  I emerged with a new sense of purpose and meaning in my life.  Apparently, the Norovirus was exactly what the doctor ordered.