'Tis the Season

I've mentioned before that I'm an overthinker and an overplanner. Lately I'm finding that life often combats these tendencies for me.

Life simplifies on my behalf.

It says, "You're incapable of stopping yourself, of slowing things down, of noticing. So I'll slow things for you. I'll make sure you notice."

The past few weeks, through some complete and instantaneous halts, life has offered several opportunities for me to stop and take a closer look around.

I've had an especially long string of bad luck over the last month or so. It's seemed like each day more and more things have gone wrong.