“Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, in a pretty and well preserved body….but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up…totally worn out and loudly proclaiming, WOW…What a Ride!”
I can't remember where I first read the above quote, but it has always stuck with me. It is basically how I've tried to live my life. I'm always up to trying anything new at least once. I'll go just about everywhere anyone wants to go. I just always need to be doing something to maintain inner peace.
When I started thinking about organizing my time to better utilize that time, I realized that there are some real *time sucks* in my life. You know what I mean. Things you do that essentially just suck the time out of your life, on a daily basis. I suppose that watching TV is the biggest *time suck* of all.
Others include grocery shopping, clothes shopping, waiting in lines and waiting at the doctor's office. I guess I should also include waiting in line to drop off prescriptions and then waiting in line to pick up prescriptions. I wait in lines at the bank and I wait in lines at the grocery store. I wait in lines at the post office and I wait in lines at traffic lights. I waste a fair amount of time waiting in lines, so I have the right to complain.
Conceivably, these are things I cannot do anything about. So, I'm seeing that the only real place I can do any good, is to cut back on my TV consumption. I can't stand most TV commercials anyway, so this shouldn't be too taxing. I used to just love all the CSI shows, but they are all becoming a big blur as the stories all seem to have already been covered by one CSI show or another. Did you know that Americans spend something like 32 hours per week watching television? No wonder this country is so full of overweight, obese and unhappy people. Considering the amount of TV consumed in our country, I'm willing to guess people eat more because they can't measure up to the lives they see others living on the television, which we all know is bunk anyway.
So, in my grand effort to better utilize my time, I'm guessing that TV is going to take a far back burner in my life. Like I've always said, I'd much rather be out doing something than watching someone else do it on TV…
I can't remember where I first read the above quote, but it has always stuck with me. It is basically how I've tried to live my life. I'm always up to trying anything new at least once. I'll go just about everywhere anyone wants to go. I just always need to be doing something to maintain inner peace.
When I started thinking about organizing my time to better utilize that time, I realized that there are some real *time sucks* in my life. You know what I mean. Things you do that essentially just suck the time out of your life, on a daily basis. I suppose that watching TV is the biggest *time suck* of all.
Others include grocery shopping, clothes shopping, waiting in lines and waiting at the doctor's office. I guess I should also include waiting in line to drop off prescriptions and then waiting in line to pick up prescriptions. I wait in lines at the bank and I wait in lines at the grocery store. I wait in lines at the post office and I wait in lines at traffic lights. I waste a fair amount of time waiting in lines, so I have the right to complain.
Conceivably, these are things I cannot do anything about. So, I'm seeing that the only real place I can do any good, is to cut back on my TV consumption. I can't stand most TV commercials anyway, so this shouldn't be too taxing. I used to just love all the CSI shows, but they are all becoming a big blur as the stories all seem to have already been covered by one CSI show or another. Did you know that Americans spend something like 32 hours per week watching television? No wonder this country is so full of overweight, obese and unhappy people. Considering the amount of TV consumed in our country, I'm willing to guess people eat more because they can't measure up to the lives they see others living on the television, which we all know is bunk anyway.
So, in my grand effort to better utilize my time, I'm guessing that TV is going to take a far back burner in my life. Like I've always said, I'd much rather be out doing something than watching someone else do it on TV…
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