You are making the bed and the sheets just refuse to go flat. No matter how much you pull, tuck, or smooth – REPEATEDLY – OVER AND OVER – EVERY WHICH WAY – the crinkled spots just go back to being crinkled. Eventually – three hours later – you give up, realizing it is a lost battle.
You are trying to remember a certain word for a document you are creating because it’s exactly what you are trying to portray, and it just won’t come to you. You try something similar and do the electronic thesaurus, but it won’t give you the exact word. You scramble around Google, the hand-held thesaurus, and various other sources until – three hours later – disappointed, but resigned – you go with a different, similar meaning word.
You meet someone who you haven’t seen in ages, and – for no explainable reason – you can’t think of their name. It really bugs you because you KNOW them, so you feel terrible that their name has escaped your conscious brain. But no matter how much you try to pull it from the recesses of your brain or how long you search old year books, etc. – three hours later – you give up. (Or it comes to you in the middle of the night!)
Someone is asking you what actor played the lead in a certain show, and you know the answer but can’t think of it – three hours later (or the middle of the night) – it comes to you. Or you finally give up trying to figure it out. (Thank God for Google in this case; we don’t have to work too hard thinking about this one since it can be researched.)
How many other examples can you come up with in your daily travels? Heck, let’s give it up sooner! There is too much life yet to live. Why get stuck on the small stuff? Think about it (NOT for three hours), solve it differently, google it, whatever, but don’t get hung up, slowed down, or frustrated. We all have “blank” moments. (I like to say my brain is on layaway.) Laugh it off and move on. In the long run, it isn’t earth shattering (plus – it will likely come to you in the middle of the night!).
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