twenty minutes

i'm working a lot. it's not a complaint. i'm grateful for work. and work i love.

the past few days, my resistance is wearing. i'm tired. my learning curve still feels steep at times.

i used to have a lot of headaches. i would take tylenol. or advil. and start the clock for twenty minutes. it took twenty minutes to feel relief. if, at nineteen minutes, i was still in pain, i would still hold out for that last minute. that last minute would make all the difference.

twenty minutes became a marker for me. if something wasn't going right, i'd start the clock for twenty minutes. everything could change in twenty minutes.

recently, without every mentioning my twenty minute theory, a new friend said to me, 'you never know what could happen in twenty minutes. the love of your life could walk right in.'

i beamed at her.

twenty minutes. everything could change in twenty minutes.

and it will.