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Time

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Is it me or does the time seem to be whizzing by? It’s October! Wasn’t it just June? I know we are all busy and we have things to do every day, but come on there has to be more than the daily grind. The only reason I even mention this — now don’t start shaking your head when you read this and say to yourself, “Damn, she’s right!” I have this stupid pill container, because I can’t for the love of — remember if I take my pills every day (start shaking!) and I’m already refilling the prescription and I could have sworn it was just last week! How can that be? It’s been a month already? And then — now get this — I only have 7 refills left — that means its been 5 months since I saw the doctor – NOW I know it hasn’t been that long. I was just there – like last month.

Okay, okay, let’s all calm down here. We all live busy lives and time slips through our hands. If any of you are like me, you work a full time job, have your activities you do on the weekends and then you have free time (well, that free time thing seems to have gone away for me)….so this is it…right? We get to look back on this and say, “We made a difference?” or “We had fun.” or “We were here.” or “We were too busy to enjoy it?”

I don’t know about you, but today I had to go to the post office, and if any of you are true fans of my blogs you will see that I recently moved. Well, I moved to a little town right on the ocean (pacific – in case you were wondering). The post office has a perfect view and today was a picture perfect day, ocean was unbelievable, the breeze felt just right, the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold. So did I go from the post office to the beach? How silly of you to ask … of course not! I went to the bank, and then home to make dinner. Because after all, we all know that if dinner gets on the table 30 minutes too late we will never hear the end of it.

Wouldn’t it be nice to go back and get that 30 minutes of time back and do it differently?

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Yesterday is gone and tomorrow never comes. But who really enjoys today? We are in such a rush to get things done that we seldom sit back and enjoy what we have sitting right in front of us. That is until it’s too late and it’s gone. Then we lament about all the things we would have done, or could have done, or should have done. That’s the would’ve, could’ve, should’ve talk. I dated a guy (about 15 years ago) that said that all the time. Mind you he was cheating on his wife at the time, so I’m thinking he knew a thing about regrets.

It’s funny this ‘would’ve, could’ve, should’ve,’ thing. When you stop and think about all of them and wonder what would have turned out differently you’d be in such a different place that you might not even recognize yourself. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing? Me? I kind of finally like myself – it’s only taken about half a century to get there, but now that I’ve found it I think I’ll stay here for a while.

I received an email from a man I’ve never met, but that I do business with. He had some harsh words for me, but I took them to heart, and I realized that you get much further in this world by playing by the rules than by being the bull in the china shop. I’ve also come to realize that I have an older brother that has always been here and I haven’t relied on him as much as I should have. (there it is – that old should’ve).

Time is like the wind, once its blown past you, you don’t get it back. Enjoy it while it’s here. There are no ‘do-overs’ in the real world, and most people don’t give you a chance for a fresh start.