Months and months of waiting and watching have concluded as the bless'd season of Fall is upon us. I celebrate because I have 2 days a week filled with football I could watch if I choose...and because there is a chill in the morning air which demands my lungs to breath in deep...because the pumpkin spice latte is back at Starbucks...because this time of the year is like the beginning of a long roller coaster ride. It is like sitting in line at 6-flags for an hour and a half just to get on the ride...and now I am just happy the coaster is moving!
Fall is my favorite time of year. It holds the the best of my memories from my past.
There is a price to pay for this amazing season. With fall comes so many more options in your life, things you can do with your time. As you get older, it seems like the many options suddenly become many commitments...and though fall brings a beauty to it...I am finding that it also brings a weight to my life.
There is much I want to do. There are many goals I want to reach, many tasks I must complete, many relationships I wish to develop...and I find myself butting up against...well...the 24th hour of the day. I am going and going and doing and doing, and suddenly I look up and realize that there is only so much time left in the day, and the time that is left will not suffice to reach my goals and complete my tasks and pour into my relationships.
With that reality in mind, I just ask a question: What do you do with your 24th hour? When you are left to acknowledge that you will not get done all you had hoped to get done...what gets your "last hour."
I ask this because I feel like every day I am faced with this question.
Do I give my last bit of energy and time in the day to my friends? To my work? To cleaning the house and maintaining it? To watching another episode of Lost or Studio 60? There are so many things to do...and yet each day I cannot get to it all.
I would write more...but I want to leave room for you to comment....and the roller coaster is about to start again. =)
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Cory I am with you, I find my self askinh that question a lot. Especially with all that I have going on in life ( Full load of College Classes, 2 jobs coming to a total of 42 hours a week, realtionships, etc) And to be honest if I find that I just can't get everything done, I take time for my self, watch tv, talk with my room mates, read a book that's not on a current syllaus, drink some coffee, etc. Because when I get to the last hour and see all that I got done I realize that inorder to make it on to the finish I need some me time because me time is not penciled on to my to do list :)
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