There’s More To Life Than a To-Do List
July 14, 2007
Wonder Woman over at DiSjoiNteD INtelLigenCE has written a great post called “Live the Life You Love - Love the Life You Live” that should serve a reminder to us all:
One of the most important things in my life is to take time for myself: Time to think, time to pamper, time to do the laundry and time to do all the little things that can’t be ignored. I have to remind myself over and over again to take time for these things, but they are necessary for my well being. Why do you think it’s so hard to remember?
If you’ve read Selfish for Self or Life: Full-time Job; Benefits Optional you’ll know that this is something I also struggle with from time to time. And I don’t think Wonder Woman and I are alone.
Have you ever taken the time to sit down and think about how you pamper yourself? Can you remember the last time you had “me time“, took a break from the world, and enjoyed simply being alive? When was the last time you spent any significant length of time just doing… nothing? Or something that wasn’t on a big “To-Do” list?
If you can’t answer those questions - or if the answer is “a long time ago” - it might be time to remind yourself that there’s more to life than the daily grind.
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July 15th, 2007 at 11:06 am
But I love the daily grind D…. :)
July 15th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Boy did one of my coworkers get to me last day. You see, I have a habit of taking a day’s vacation here and a day’s vacation there for that “me time” that you mentioned in your post. Some of us know how important it is but maybe 90% of the population don’t. So I was given the comment, “No big plans for your day off? So you’re wasting your life away by planning to sleep ’til noon and doing nothing.” Yes, I felt that little stab in the chest. (I thought I had trained myself well enough to be numb towards these comments. Sometimes, they still take me by surprise.) I smiled back and simply said, “It’s called catching up with sleep.” Now that I think of it, I should have replied, “It’s called catching up with life.”
July 18th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Some people just honestly don’t know how to “catch up with life”. The idea of spending a little time doing whatever you want to do - without it necessarily being “productive - is completely foreign to them. More than anything else, I feel sorry for them!