Time: How It's Having It's Way With Me At The Moment & Some Great News!

We all struggle from time to time. Sometimes it’s money, sometimes it’s relationships, sometimes, it’s time itself. Well, that’s what I’m going to write about today.

Many of you will know that I started a new job this week and it’s understandably taken a toll on me. All the new names, all the different technologies, software, architectures and the 2.5 hour return drive a day have drained me.

I’ve come from a bit of a career break, something like 6 or 7 weeks and aside from having an author gig on the side, time was my own. One of the particularly enjoyable aspects of this time off was being liberal with my interactions around my wife and our animals.

Now, I’m struggling to make a post a day on Steemit, something I would easily achieve prior. Now I could talk about prioritisation, “making the time”, burning the midnight oil etc. but I think these things fail to focus any pragmatic attention on the issue.

Some things in life just can’t be influenced or controlled by us. My grandfather used to say “what can’t be cured, must be endured”.

This lack of time has caused my physical exercise to drop to zero too. Now, I used to get up or 4:30 or so to get some exercise done but what you gain somewhere, you lose somewhere else and I’d find myself fatiguing during the of the day.
Another regrettable result is my inability to reply in a timely fashion to all the kind commenters on my posts. I pride myself on putting my best effort into engaging with every commenter who takes the time to write something related to my work and I apologise for falling behind on this.

There’s a Star Trek movie, I think it’s Generations, that contains the line “they say time is the fire in which we all burn”. I’ve always really resonated with that assessment. I think it aptly captures the reality of life. We are not always masters of our own time and, like death (I wont say taxes because I’d like to think that we will one day rid ourselves of state theft) we need to accept it as immutable in our existence.

… answers phone call …

Wow! Just to prove how unpredictable time is, just as I was looking to close my post with a summary, I got news from my best mate of 24 years that he’s just got engaged to his girlfriend! I’m totally stoked!

We don't know how much time we have and we can't always determine what we do with the time we have. Letting go of the need to control time and relaxing our relationship with it, I think, is not a bad way to go. Thanks for reading guys and may time treat you well.

... your humble thinker, nolnocluap