So, I want to ask, what's or where is your sanctuary? For me it's the bathroom (and for clarification I mean where I shower, not the toilet). The bathroom is the only place in my house that I can ever be truly alone. It's where I do all my best thinking. It's where I relax. Where I contemplate my navel. Study my face for all its imperfections. Where I check out the baby belly in the mirror and (thankfully) watch it shrinking every day (long way to go yet though!). Sometimes I get so lost in thoughts in the shower that I don't realise exactly how long I've been in there and when I check my watch it can be 20 minutes later. The shower is also the place where I can cry, where no one can see me and no one knows. Where I can let it all out and emerge fresh as a daisy feelin' fine.
My one other sanctuary is my car. When I go for a drive on my own, in the R32. When I have the music loud, when it's completely my choice. Where I can have the sunroof open and the wind blowing around me. I could drive for hours and hours and hours. I love it. Any excuse to drive and I'm there. Bit of a passion of mine though, as I come from a teeny bit of a racing pedigree (don't laugh) ... my Dad was a rally driver way back when .. he actually raced against Brocky when he was just starting out (for the record Brocky whooped Dad's ass). Dad taught me to drive. I didn't have lessons from a driving school .. I had lessons with Dad. One of the first times he took me out he took me to a gravel road, told me to floor it to 100kph then lock the brakes up. He taught me how to really drive. How to feel the car. Probably why I love cars and driving as much as I do.
So, that's it, just wanted to share where my sanctuaries were :D
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- Spidey
- The Sticks, Victoria, Australia
- I've recently given up the Stay At Home Mum role to the hubby and gone into business for myself. New title: Mumpreneur!!! I have 3 kids, Sprat 5, Babygirl 2 1/2 and the newbie, Smirnoff, 1. Typical aussie humour runs through me as does the need to vent from time to time!! I used to be quite a talented writer but 3 pregnancies have dramatically reduced the living number of brain cells I have, so this is an attempt to try to restore some!
3 comments:
The only real sanctuary I have is my kung fu school. It's great because once I walk through the doors, my mind and body are devoted to training or teaching so I'm completely pulled out of the real world. Its the one place where I can not think of anything at all.
The only other thing that comes close is when I'm playing the guitar. I just love it and it relaxes me heaps :)
Thanks Al for sharing that :)
I wish I had a place where I could think of nothing at all too, but my biggest problem is that my brain never stops thinking! I'm constantly over thinking stuff ('like a girl' I've been told!) and rehashing stuff not to mention planning and writing mental to do lists!
I am probably the only chick in the world that can't relax whilst getting massages and facials and the like because my mind is still racing even then :D Any suggestions for a place where I can blank out completely would result in huge hugs! :P
At the risk of stereotyping myself with martial arts maybe Tai Chi would be good? Especially considering your location. I used to do it and it was great, I should really start up again.
I find fighting is good because if I hesitate and think I'd get slapped down pretty fast :P
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