An Organized Disaster, Before & After

If you've never undertaken a major remodeling project in your house, it may be hard to imagine the level of chaos that can ensue after tearing into a few walls and scattering your belongings from the room you choose to assault throughout the house. Sometimes, we gladly dive into a project because all we think about are the benefits of proceeding. Then halfway through when it looks like WW3 has broken out in the kitchen, all that is apparent are the negatives to having begun this stupid project in the first place! Here is my "lovely" kitchen about a year and half ago. That's me beyond the demilitarized zone.

Sometimes when we are making big changes in our lives, there is a point where we see how messy everything has become and our inside voice starts screaming "What were you thinking?!?!!" Hopefully at that point, we can dredge out some thoughts from our past. Particularly the ones that lead us to believe getting into this was a good idea would be helpful. However, rather we feel good about our self-induced situation at the time or not, these crisis moments usually come slightly after the point of no return. Since our options for stopping look even worse than where we started, such as trying to fix dinner in a kitchen that looks like it's been crushed by a tank, we proceed.
Even though we can be fearful or weary during a major life undertaking, we generally are able to press on when we set our mind to it. Maybe that mindset is only there because we don't feel like we have much of a choice, but we get there none the less. Just remember, there is victory in simply managing to ride the roller coaster. Rather we screamed or peed our pants is kind of beside the point. We didn't try to get off during the ride, and no one died. Fortunately, no casualties were reported during the battle of my kitchen either. And now I'm pretty glad I decided to ride this organized disaster from before until after.