{"id":1065,"date":"2022-06-27T02:28:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T01:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T01:37:00","slug":"marta-y-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binarywords.com\/en\/2022\/06\/27\/marta-y-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha and Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I, like many others around my age both in Spain and Ireland, was born and raised in a catholic environment, so for many years, I attended Mass every Sunday and every religious holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I remember several passages from the New Testament that impacted me, and one of them was the one about Martha and Mary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/sup>As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. <\/sup>Esta ten\u00eda una hermana que se llamaba Mar\u00eda, la cual, sent\u00e1ndose a los pies de Jes\u00fas, o\u00eda su palabra. <\/sup>But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, \u201cLord, don\u2019t you care that my sister has left me to do the work alone? Tell her to help me!\u201d <\/sup>\u201cMartha, Martha,\u201d the Lord answered, \u201cyou are worried and upset about many things, <\/sup>but few things are needed\u2014or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I think this passage caught my attention because I didn\u00b4t fully understand it, it didn\u00b4t make sense to me. Well, if you had things to do, then you had to do them, right? You couldn\u00b4t just be lazy and stay there\u2026 But then Jesus came and said the exact opposite, which I found mindblowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u00b4t even think of questioning whether those \u201cthings that had to be done\u201d really needed to be done, or whether simply being<\/em>, without \u201cdoing\u201d, really meant being lazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u00b4s because I was internally suffering that contrast (or rather, conflict) between what Martha and Mary\u00b4s characters represented: I was overwhelmed by all my tasks, which I felt as obligations, and when for whatever reason I dedicated time to rest or do something less \u201cproductive\u201d, I felt bad afterward. I wasn\u00b4t comfortable with either one thing or the other. The result? A lack of sleep that lasted for years, and a big feeling of guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that time has passed and I know myself better, I know that what\u00b4s really happening is that I have two different operation modes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n