The Lure of Laziness...
I suppose this is one of the most frustrating thing about living life for me. There is a cruel irony for me when the stranglehold of busy life loosens up. I waste more time...despite having more time.
I just came off one of the most intense periods of my life...about to start THE most intense period in my life. There is a sort of lull in the action. Things have slowed down. The deadlines I have had to meet for medical school admission have been easy to meet. I have been able to have free time.
Now, I have to give myself credit. I have been able to get a lot of things done around the house. I have built shelves, organized closets...you know...getting the house to be livable and functional. Yet I HATE the way I treat my free time a lot of times. I sit down and surf iTunes...or watch MSNBC for 2 hours...or pop in a DVD. There's nothing incredibly wrong with these choices...but there are times in my life when I am relaly overcome with a desire to learn. I am in one of those times right now.
I have been overtaken by the conflict in the Middle East. I cannot imagine such hate and territorialism so deeply embedded into an entire culture. (Hence, the MSNBC comment above.) I have also become worried about our environment. I understand that this has been labeled as a left-wing agenda item...but I really worry about it. The heat waves as of late are alarming. There is a lot of science that suggests we are damaging our envoronment. I have read a lot of Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth." It really uses visual images to show how glacier's are melting and carbon dioxide levels are rising. It scares me. I appreciate the relevance of science...no, I won't discuss stem cell research. That's another difficult thing for me to handle...(we are throwing the embryos away...) Anyway...
My point is that I feel a great need to manage my time better. I want to defeat the trend that has existed in past Christmas vacations, summer vacations, and other less-stressful times in my life. That trend is that when the marionette strings loosen...I waste more time--despite having vastly MORE time than before. I think of all the cool books I could have read this summer (I know that the house was a big project....but still) like Thomas Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem" or David McCullough's "John Adams."
I guess I just have something to work on in coming years. And to keep all of this in line with my goal of being the best father I can be... I suppose that's why Franklin Covey has thier niche market. Nobody can TOTALLY control their time.
I just came off one of the most intense periods of my life...about to start THE most intense period in my life. There is a sort of lull in the action. Things have slowed down. The deadlines I have had to meet for medical school admission have been easy to meet. I have been able to have free time.
Now, I have to give myself credit. I have been able to get a lot of things done around the house. I have built shelves, organized closets...you know...getting the house to be livable and functional. Yet I HATE the way I treat my free time a lot of times. I sit down and surf iTunes...or watch MSNBC for 2 hours...or pop in a DVD. There's nothing incredibly wrong with these choices...but there are times in my life when I am relaly overcome with a desire to learn. I am in one of those times right now.
I have been overtaken by the conflict in the Middle East. I cannot imagine such hate and territorialism so deeply embedded into an entire culture. (Hence, the MSNBC comment above.) I have also become worried about our environment. I understand that this has been labeled as a left-wing agenda item...but I really worry about it. The heat waves as of late are alarming. There is a lot of science that suggests we are damaging our envoronment. I have read a lot of Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth." It really uses visual images to show how glacier's are melting and carbon dioxide levels are rising. It scares me. I appreciate the relevance of science...no, I won't discuss stem cell research. That's another difficult thing for me to handle...(we are throwing the embryos away...) Anyway...
My point is that I feel a great need to manage my time better. I want to defeat the trend that has existed in past Christmas vacations, summer vacations, and other less-stressful times in my life. That trend is that when the marionette strings loosen...I waste more time--despite having vastly MORE time than before. I think of all the cool books I could have read this summer (I know that the house was a big project....but still) like Thomas Friedman's "From Beirut to Jerusalem" or David McCullough's "John Adams."
I guess I just have something to work on in coming years. And to keep all of this in line with my goal of being the best father I can be... I suppose that's why Franklin Covey has thier niche market. Nobody can TOTALLY control their time.
posted by Anonymous at 8/07/2006 02:05:00 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home