People
often tell me that they’re drawn to my energy.
That they appreciate the enthusiasm I emit for…for…well, the enthusiasm
I emit for…everything. I like
surrounding myself with those who have similar energy. Not that theirs has to match mine. I’m keenly aware I tire most with my
vigor. But I do enjoy being around those
who show at least some enthusiasm for the things they engage in, not the least
of which is life.
Currently,
I’m out of state. Went to an event
tonight, one that was supposed to be full of lively folks and festivities. But when I arrived, from the moment I walked
in the door, I felt as if the absolute lack of vitality in the room was
bleeding me dry of my own. That if I
remained there, I’d be completely enervated by the time I left.
I
wasn’t alone in my impression. My
friends, who also attended the event, felt the same. One even went so far as to compare tonight’s
event to a funeral, with those present emulating the depressed mental state of
mourners, going through the motions of living life, resembling zombies,
hitching and bumbling about not really paying attention or taking in their
surroundings. And you can forget the
thought those zombie-like individuals might actually enjoy themselves….
Until
tonight’s event, I can’t recall ever being in a setting where everyone present, my friends and self
excluded, mirrored lethargy to the extent as to make sloths look downright
psyched. It was a bizarre state of
affairs, one that was unsettling to my friends and me. Though we’d planned on staying for the entire
event, we lasted less than an hour before deciding that we needed to
leave. To separate ourselves from an
energy level…or lack there of…that seemed so foreign as to make us wonder if it
was real. Unfortunately, it was.
As
expected, each of us felt devitalized by the time we made our retreat. I found this curious, since we hadn’t done
anything that should have made us fatigued…well…unless you count trying
desperately to avoid adopting the slothful mindset of those at the event.
As
stated earlier, I don’t expect others to share or match my Energizer bunny
energy level. Never before have I felt
so sapped of my abundant energy as I did by those present at tonight’s event. I’m glad my friends and I decided to
extricate ourselves from the event when we did.
As it was, it took us a while to rebuild to our normal energy
level. Should we have stuck it out till
the end of the event as originally planned, I’m not sure we would have bounced
back as quickly as we did. I imagine
that, as another friend pointed out, we would have felt the need to go back to
our individual hotel rooms and scrub that lethargic energy from ourselves in a
hot shower before pouring ourselves into bed, too exhausted to do much else.
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