Time Flies By

I can't even remember what I was actually planning on writing about here, but I guess I had a change of direction when I realized that my last post was 16 days ago, and that made me do a double-take.

To say this year has already been flying by would be a great understatement. The first month and a half or so has absolutely skyrocketed by, and I have no clue where the time has gone. This is mostly a good thing.

I'm a firm believer that no matter how busy work is, how much you have to get done before X event or Y deadline, time flying by is better than time crawling by. Time flies by when I'm doing things. These things might suck, they might be work I don't care to do, mundane cleaning tasks, laundry, counting out coins to roll up and cash in at the bank, whatever.

When life gets busy, I definitely feel that "shit I don't have enough time in a day!" feeling, but it's good because it puts in perspective the preciousness of life and just living in general. I'd rather be doing pointless things than sitting around always doing nothing. Downtime is good certainly, but the opposite situation of having no time in a day to enjoy anything is almost is worse in my opinion.

I HATE watching a clock count down. I HATE whenever I look at a clock expecting it to be 30 minutes later than it really is, and realizing it isn't. This is when I truly know I'm not doing something very enjoyable or beneficially at the moment. When I am on the treadmill, and I think I have ran for 15 minutes, but it's actually only 9, I know it's time for me to get off. Heart not in it, I'd obviously much rather be doing something else, so it's not life or death, move on.

Sometimes this luxury isn't afforded to us. When I used to work on the clock for example, no matter how slow time went by, you had to deal with it. And deal with it I did, by making up fun ways to pass the time (you can take a 5 minute walk every time to realphabetize one letter in the CDs), or by just being utterly miserable.

Luckily now my job lets me step away whenever I need to, and get fresh before I get back at it.

Right now, I feel like I haven't accomplished anything over the last 6 weeks, but I KNOW I've lived a lot. That's enough for me.