Sometimes some of my younger
friends tell me that they admire me because I appear to always be doing
something. I feel a little embarrassed
because I know how little I actually accomplish. It’s embarrassing to tabulate how many hours
I sit in front of the television or simply sit.
Be it resolved annually, monthly, weekly or daily, I find myself still
sitting around. How many others have
this problem? When one thinks about the
variety of activities available to us, because we have so much more free time
than our grandparents, isn’t it embarrassing to find that opportunities are
under-utilized, to put it mildly?
Here it is the third last
day of my 2 weeks vacation and I have still not opened up my Spanish lessons
and I have only been on the treadmill 3 times.
What’s up with that? Okay, I did
spend quite a bit of time making cards but did I send out my full mailing
list? No, I say in a whisper, head hung
low.
Yes, I am being harsh with
myself but if I can be lax now what am I going to be like when I have 24 hours
7 days a week to fill? Am I going to
become a couch potato? I shudder at the
thought. Sometimes when a person makes a
comment and you are feeling a bit embarrassed, perhaps you should turn your
focus inward and ask yourself why you are feeling thus. It’s easy to take a long lens and say I have
accomplished a lot in my life but in the full scheme of things, one should take
a look at day to day activities and ask how much is quality time? One cannot expect a quality retirement if we
can’t have a quality vacation.
And how did you spend your
Christmas break?
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