The suspended animation blues

Have you ever felt that you are simply hanging in the middle of the time and space continuum? You have plans, an agenda, goals, deadlines, places to go, and people to see, but you find yourself stuck in an energetic void where nothing — as in zippidy-do-dah — is happening. You want it to happen; you are trying to make it happen; you have been working, creating, pursuing, planning, following up, following through, taking notes, taking names, making calls, making contacts, making lists, making time, and, yet, you are going nowhere fast.  It’s as if you stepped into industrial-strength molasses or your feet forgot how to work or the Acme Cement Company made your shoes. There is no forward movement. None.

You are at a standstill. You feel a bit like the pineapple chunk in the Jell-O salad — suspended in sweet goo and going nowhere fast.

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