Mar 2nd, 2005
Written on 2 March 2005 | Posted in me | 4 Comments
Hi howdy. And Happy birthday, Tom Wolfe.
Lately, I have been thinking about balance. Equilibrium. Parity. Finding a point at which I am comfortable with the amount of time I spend doing a task (knitting, reading, crafting, working, blogging) in relation to the amount of time I spend doing other tasks. Is there an equation for this? There ought to be. I would very much benefit from this equation, being the type of person who throws herself at one particular task with reckless abandon, only to briefly surface for air before immersing myself in another task.
Witness all the recent reading. Book reviews are never quite peppered throughout these pages, are they? Oh no, they are quite unsatisfactorily clumped.
In fits in starts is how I operate, I operate in fits and starts.
The current issue of ReadyMade is devoted to living in small-footprint, low-impact ways. I commend it to you. And recently commended to me: a stack of seed catalogues and spring gardening magazines from co-workers. I am dreaming of peonies and lemon trees and sweet peas and Spring.
Screw equations for equilibrium! Go with the flow! The one thing I have learned from Mom is you have to sieze the moment and enjoy it for what it’s worth when you can and while you can.
Peonies, lemon trees, sweet peas… yippee!!!
3 March 2005 @ 08:59
I agree with Liz and I know excatly what you mean Amanda. I’m the same when it comes to getting things done. I can’t schedule a bunch of different tasks, I usually just go all or nothing on one task, finish it, and then all or nothing on the next. I wish for balance sometimes too, but as long as the stuff you are absorbing yourself in is stuff you like – then don’t fight it!!
3 March 2005 @ 11:07
i totally hear you on the whole balance thing ~ you know i’ve been trying for a while to find it myself.
and though i agree with the previous comments, i also know that literally there’s only a certain amount of energy and time that i have and that there are so many things out there that i want to do that, it seems to me, i *have* to plan them out somehow. or get in some good kind of rhythm so i can just naturally get to those things.
i love immersing myself in new interests but after a while of just knitting, for example, i start getting all antsy and cranky because i’m not reading/cooking/socializing/studying/excercising/etc etc etc at all.
so. no equation coming from me, unfortunately. not yet at least.
3 March 2005 @ 15:13
I don’t think there is an equation. I agree with all previous comments. I think you have to just do what’s important to you at that time, and be willing to accept that you will NEVER do everything that you want. I have come to the realisation that I might never put all my photos in an album, but in the bigger scheme of things, it’s really that not that big a deal. Keep us posted if you do find an equation.
3 March 2005 @ 17:54