​THE CYCLE NEVER ENDS – the laundry is never done By Pennie Hunt

When my children were young, I worked at an elementary school library. After a class of students came in and checked out books, I would quickly begin shelving the books they returned. I was never finished before the next class arrived. The process of returning books, checking out books, and reshelving books was a never-ending cycle.

On the weekends I would do laundry for my family of five. The mountains of clothes, sheets, and towels would fill the hallway as the washer and dryer chugged away. The laundry was never done. The cycle of clothes being currently worn, the mountains of color divided piles, and the clean folded laundry was a never-ending cycle. Laundry is never completely done.

If you watch the stockers in a grocery store, they continually cut open boxes to replenish everything from cake mixes to toilet paper on the store shelves. They are followed by shoppers who reach for the items and leave holes in the neatly stocked shelves. The grocery aisles are a never-ending push and pull of products.

Tonight, the sun will set, and in the morning, it will rise. The feel of fall is replacing summer, and soon, the colorful leaves of fall will be covered by winter snow. The tides of the oceans rotate between high and low.

History is a story of war and peace, destruction and rebuilding, planting and harvesting, health and pain, laughter and tears. You can stand at the window of the hospital nursery welcoming the bundles of pink and blue, while at the same time someone in the hospital is saying goodbye to a loved one. Life itself is a cycle.

I cannot think of anything in life that isn’t on a continual cycle of repeated change.  

We humans want to believe that we can get ahead of the cycle. That we can control it. That we can come to a space of completion. That we can get the laundry done, the books shelved, the grocery isles stocked and somehow we can stop aging.

We beat ourselves up with self-criticism when we are not successful. We convince ourselves that we aren’t doing it right and aren’t good enough if we can’t complete the job. We try to move faster, think harder, and be stronger, just to keep up.

The truth is it isn’t possible. We will never get ahead of the cycles of life. The laundry will never be done- but we can all have clean clothes at some point in the cycle. We must learn to be okay with that.

And now as I write the last words of this column and send it off to be printed, I may for a short minute believe that I am done. I may believe that my work is completed. But tomorrow morning I will think about my next column. I will sit at my computer and begin typing. And the cycle will begin again.
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                                   Pennie’s Life Lesson: 
                                  Life is a series of cycles.
The perpetual movement of change will begin again and again. 
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​YOUR TURN...        
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