I’ve always been fascinated with office supplies. There are so many tools created to make my life easier and more organized. Some people get excited about walking around Home Depot. But I get excited just walking through Staples! So many post-its, highlighters, pens, forms and stickers!

I wish my emotions could use office supplies.

If I could, I would paper clip all of my “good” ideas together, write them on index cards and save them for later. In reality, they are scattered across my mind.

I would use an eraser, one of the big pink ones, to delete all of the negative messages I tell myself.

I would use rubber bands to keep a tight hold on my emotions. Sometimes they get the better of me and put me in situations I feel like I continue to pay for today.

I wish I had a file cabinet big enough to store all of my memories. As I get older and have more life experiences, I find that my ability to recall specifics is becoming less and less accurate. There are things that I want to remember forever, and sometimes the only way to do that is to put it in a file, label it in block letters, and pull it out when you’re ready.

I wish I had a ruler to keep my mind pointing in one direction. More often than not I feel like I protractor, wavering back and forth between right now, the future and “back there”. A ruler would keep me going in the right direction without allowing for any stray turns.

I wish I had a set of colored pencils big enough to add more color to my life. Today is a gray day, and I long for something greater than myself to reach down and fill in the blanks with something vibrant.

I wish I had a hole punch big enough to turn the excess paper in my life into colorful confetti. Confetti is so much fun to make, but a drag to clean up. So I guess if I had the hole punch, I’d also need to buy an industrial vacuum cleaner!

And finally, I wish I had a bottle of white out large enough to correct the mistakes I’ve made. White out doesn’t take the mistakes away, but it allows you to write over them. I could use a lot of “do overs”.

tags: coping skills, corrections, hope, organization