Sometimes I can be pretty stubborn. I know this might surprise some of you, but it's true! I am in one of those moments right now: I absolutely refuse to chase people. The last six months or so I had been doing a pretty good job (by my standards) of keeping up with people and relationships through invitations to hang out. But lately I have been doing less and less of that, and have found myself on a lower stress level as a result. You see, when you invite people to hang out with you who are willing to, but probably would not have thought to invite you if the situation were reversed, you leave yourself subject to being stood up, forgotten, cancelled on, etc. And this stuff stressed me out.
There's seriously nothing worse than scrambling at the last minute to occupy your day.
So I have decided that for the next three months, I will extend no invitations to anything unless it is my turn to reciprocate. In other words, I am waiting to be invited to hang out before I do any inviting. And while this might leave my social calendar a little more open space, I think I will feel better about it.
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