Hurdles

This one is behind me now.

One of so, so many in the past and so many more to come.

The relief did not wash over me as it ought to have.

It was immediately on to the next thing. And the next. All of the forsaken tasks of the past few days, and weeks, and months.

In the end, it was easier than I'd expected. I gave myself permission to be adequate, and that got me through. Done is better than perfect, a friend told me recently. Done is better than decent is about what it was today.

But done it is, for now.

And tomorrow it is back to school, to self-inflicted lunacy, to deadlines on the heels of other deadlines. To early mornings and late nights with too little sleep in between.

And who knows what after that.