At a thousand miles an hour

Funnily enough, I never have time to regularly post on WordPress. Why? Because I am too caught up doing other things. I always find myself using the classic excuse “I don’t have any time” for anything and everything. It’s pathetic. I decided to change this, I made a timetable…set out my priorities and listed dates to which I wanted things complete. Suddenly, I did have time, I even had at least an hour a day to do my own thing. I was amazed, at how much time I actually usually wasted (especially aimlessly shopping on eBay). Useless things that take up my time without me even realizing.

My problem lies here though. I did my timetable and it worked,  but why oh why can’t I keep to it? I have noticed that should I follow the timetable religiously for a few days I’m doing well, but the minute I stray from it,  I’m back in la la land!

I think the problem is we must be having too much time and too many things to do. We want to read the news, catch up with friends, see that movie we’ve wanted to see for over a month and ofcourse spend hours on Facebook.

When will we realise that everything does not need to happen all at once. In fact, if we don’t spend that time watching that TV show we never really liked, we would actually accumulate a great deal of ‘leisure” hours. Time is precious, it is a gift, we just need to slow down and recognize we have a lot of it. The old saying “Life is too short” can be true in many instances, we find we recall this quote at times of death or sickness or some other misfortune. Life is not too short, life is what we make of it and how we use it.

Maybe you haven’t been or will never go to Paris or Egypt, but maybe you have made a  big difference in someones life. Maybe you are the best cook your parents, kids or grandkids have ever been lucky enough to have. Maybe you are the best person, the greatest friend in a mates life.

Loosen up, and enjoy life. We should stop focusing on the time we have left, and focus on what we want to achieve right now. At this hour, at this minute, today.

Choices?

Generation Y is what they call us. Generation Y is blessed they say, with technology, thousands of career options, travel, money and the likes. However I put to you this question, are choices a good thing? My nana and me often talk about the ‘good old days’ that’s her good old days I should mention, and I often walk away thinking how exciting life must have been for her.

She was free to do as she pleased, sure she didn’t have the latest iphone and new technology updates every two days however she wasn’t confused by everything available to her. In her day, you picked a career out of the 5 or 10 open to you and that was it. You didn’t need to finish school, you needed to make money and support your family.

This may seem completely ridiculous to some of you who believe that we have it a lot easier now with information at our finger tips. But what if this isn’t always a good thing. We are constantly being updated, reinvented, renovated… when do we have time to just stop and enjoy life. Are we simply to preoccupied with existing and surviving day to day or are we truly living life?

If we could live on the bare minimum, the absolute core necessities, what would life be like? Would it be easier? Simpler? Happier? I love life contrary to the pessimism in this post, I just wonder are we living it to its full potential? The choices we are offered today often make us second guess, which one is better…are we choosing the best option, is this the safest option. Why are we so worried that there is something else better out there?

My conclusion is that too many choices are unhelpful. I don’t want to have to choose one apple out of the 30 available to me, I just want to know which is the best, juiciest one that at the end of the day I am going to enjoy. I believe we need to slow down, take a moment and enjoy the present.