Owls and Orchids

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“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid

Everyone has good days and bad, it’s the law of human existence. If we didn’t have to struggle for what we wanted to achieve it would become meaningless. As far as theory goes it is one hundred percent true. My only niggle would be that it doesn’t ALWAYS have to feel as though you are fighting an uphill battle to get somewhere.  Then again I know it’s my attitude which gets in the way.

Tax Time is enough to make most people cringe, unless of course you are fortunate enough to have a large enough business that you can farm out this unpleasant chore to someone else. That must be true because it is usually one of the first tasks we delegate if we can either afford to or are able to get someone who likes to do the work.  I used to believe I did. Perhaps I’ve just become older and a little jaded. Have things become more complicated? Do I need a lighter look at things?

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It’s the attitude which has to change. I’m grateful I can see an accountant to get my accounts ready for the tax office. Why would I want to give myself a headache I don’t need? I have everything filed away. In fact I’m a filing fanatic, everything has a place and there is a place for everything. I can find what I need at the drop of a hat. I like it that way. No stress, and today it’s all about no stress. That is, no bad stress.

So I’m supremely grateful there are accountants who I can refer to and hand all my paperwork and books to, duly filled in and accounts sorted into the right categories, marked off in the right columns so they only have to cross check everything to make sure I’ve done it the way the tax office like it.

So why the apparent angst you may ask? It takes time and patience to make sure all the micro mechanisms are in place and working correctly. Well, I suppose I’ve been doing this long enough I should be okay by now. If they would only leave well enough alone and stop changing things.  Although that isn’t really my problem either.

I have all my little black ducks lined up with their reports ready for me. I have another row of little blue ducks with the receipts and accounts ready to roll. Then there is the big Mandarin duck who will pull all these figures and reports together and craft a masterpiece of utter confusion which only the tax office will understand. If only I didn’t have to put my moniker on the dotted line to say I understand everything contained in this epic masterpiece. I suppose we can’t have everything, can we?  (sigh)

Now please, all you tax stressed people, say after me……OM   OM OM – doesn’t that feel better?

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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”    ― Milan Kundera