Welcome to
Fray Bots Life Lab!
Sometimes a little frustration turns into Inspiration!
That's what happens when you are feeling a little frayed and
working to figure things out in this Lab of Life!
...at least that is how Fray Bot was born!
You've had one of those days, Right?
Nothing goes as it should.
Wits end, end of rope, last frayed nerve but if you take the time to lay down and cry,
well... It will just mean more work for you later?
So, frayed but unfazed you muster your best smile and keep on keeping on.
Yep! we've ll been there at one time or another.
So needing to vent, but tired of talking,
I thought of what any reasonable woman might do in this stressful place in life.
Not being a very reasonable woman, instead, I found the scissors, markers, an old t-shirt, some funky trim. I hit the sewing machine & let my inner twelve year old out to play!
A half hour later I felt much better. This, my silly attempt to capture how I felt at the moment. A way to relieve the pressure and retrieve my smile. There she sat in front of me. Frooffie hair, painted on smile, feet pointed in the wrong direction. She was clutching a tattered heart, still open and waiting to be filled. Her pants were missing - well... don't we all feel like were running embarrassingly bare butt'ed though the world, sometimes?
( Maybe that is just me, who knows??)
Anyway...
I flipped my new fuzzy friend over and wrote on her back, these words -
Don't let feeling frayed stop you from being Amazing!
Sometimes we just have to encourage ourselves, you know.
Mostly, I laughed, which was exactly what I needed, at the time!
Soon it was back to the robotic task of the day. I sat her up were I could see her. I wanted to remind myself to keep smiling on the outside till I felt it on the inside. Silly much?? probably, but it worked!
We may not always have the right tools. We may not have a perfect plan or way. We may have to play it by ear and improvises most everything. Some days are a mystery that only the Almighty's grace guides us through, but we get through!
It can be chaotic, frazzled, frayed, robotic, monotonous, with out evident logic.
You feel like a like a Fray Bot but you keep plugging away till you see it through. I would love to say it is because of some great vision of the bigger picture. That would sound so smart but would, at least in my case, be less than true. I think for me I just don't have good sense enough to know when to quit.
I've always loved the tale of the fool who did not know it could not be done, so she did it!
Use what you have, work it out in the Life Lab!
Its amazing what you can do!
Much love from 'Bama!
Thori Inspired
Head of the Mad Science Department and owner of a purple refrigerator
Fray Bots Life Lab
