Ups and downs

Life gives with one hand and takes away with the other. As many marvellous things as there are in life (and there are loads, from physical safety to intellectual stimulation) and as much as I want to be thankful for all those things, I'm worn down by wading through the treacle of day to day occurrences.

Other people have to be negotiated with, compromised with and taken into account. They want different things, and they have needs and desires. Dealing with them all takes energy away from actually doing things.

Events overtake intentions, and the physical world gets on and does its thing despite what one might want, and despite how inconvenient its actions might be.

Can I sit under a fig tree until I've figured out how the universe wants me to deal with this, please?

I'm not keen on figs, though, and I have a lot of other stuff that I need to be doing...