Stuck In Neutral

For the past few weeks, I have felt like I have been stuck in neutral (as my very cleverly thought up title says). Mostly because all my friends are still home from school, and instead of planning the rest of my year or being productive in some sense, I have been hanging out with them. Which is fine by me. It nice to have them around after so many months of being on my own. (Which I also don't really mind either.)

But I still can't help but feel like I am just stuck in neutral. Not moving backwards, and not moving forwards. Just staying put. Not progressing or moving towards anything. Just going about my days without anything to show for it. I guess you could say I felt very unproductive. I just felt like I hadn't done anything spectacular and I wasn't making progress towards something like that.

Then this past Tuesday I read a very thought provoking quote on the inside label of a bottle of Honest Tea. Love that stuff. Anyway, that quote was:

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
                            -Robert Louis Stevenson
 

For me, that was just the quote that I needed to see. It's almost as if I was destined to get the specific Honest Tea bottle... Some mystical power of the bottled tea gods put that quote in my hand. 

 

Or maybe I just picked one...

 

Either way, it really got me thinking. Maybe I hadn't planned day by day my WWOOFing plans, or booked any flights, or began to outline my specific plans. But I had been thinking about it. I had been working on videos (for my soon to be new YouTube channel. More on that later), I had been coming up with new projects, or broadening my interests in some capacity. (For those of you that are interested in details, I had been planning videos, and working on a proposal for a company.) Whether or not I had realized it at the time, I do now. This quote helped bring some sense into my head. My being "stuck in neutral" was really more of a perspective thing; something that was more of a mental thing than anything else. 

 

So today, I leave with that quote. Even though it seemed as though I had not been doing much, in actually I had been planting valuable seeds. And as we know, seeds always grow into something larger.