Lessons from kicking a brick down the road from one pile to another pile

The 8 year old  picked up a brick and said  "I am going to kick this all the way home".. "and make a new pile" .. "you will see"..

And so the walk home is slowed a bit with all the.. "watch out, look de car,", "look dis teking too long, i aint got time", "lef de brick nah man," with responses which were in the tone of  'No.. I am determined, I will get this home'..

"Kicking brick" has many meanings apparently including wasting time.

But something though when the brick is finally placed on the pile at home triumphantly.  He then said it would be awesome if he had to push a rock home.

Managing mental health means kicking brick like this, setting up useless tasks and then getting them done. 

It is not clear which comes first, the  physical health or the mental health. It is difficult to focus on mental wellness when the body is not moving to generate the serotonin needed.

While there is gratitude that the body is paining instead of itching , and that the head can touch the knee sometimes even if the joints continue to jar afterwards , the imagination  has to work out ways of being physically well while fighting with the idea that each kicking brick is futile and it is easier to just drink condensed milk.. which is on sale at $300 a tin.

Imagination which also has to work on creativity to find income and to also deal with other problems.

Kicking brick things like thinking.. 'I might need help' now.. but then working out what help.. physical tests or counselling  in which I will end up diagnosing how good or bad the therapist is  and whether the modus operandi is good. 

But kicking brick lessons, to remember that each small task.. whether getting out of bed , finishing the caregiving duties,  other tasks, to not explode or implode ,  overcoming the  guilt that the physical wellness tasks are not working out..when completed is some kind of success which might mean nothing five minutes later.

Kicking brick on the bigger road though which seems to meandering..lesson to work out what the goal really is .. that pile somewhere else and which directions to choose to get there... and not imagine that you should just sit still because the body also stiffens when you do that.