Find It, Make It.
It was going to be a long weekend. There were two public holidays making up the Lunar New Year. I was thinking, "that's a great opportunity to have time to spend with the little guy!". In this instance, the thought doesn't count as much as the action. While the prospect of having extra playtime was there, so was that prospect of having extra "me" time. For a lot of busy working people, that extra bit of time appears precious, so precious in fact that sometimes, we tend to cram so many things into it that we end up accomplishing less than what we sought out to do in the first place.
What I didn't expect was that I was going to be coming down with something. Not quite the flu, and not quite the sniffles, but it becomes this annoying little thing that stops you from appreciating that time off. And because I wasn't really feeling well, I barely had time at all to even get my thoughts together. I was just either unwell or nasty. In the end, I preferred just lying it off to ease the headaches that thinking brings about. And so, what was supposed to be a good excuse for spending extra time with Jakjak didn't really end up as time at all.
This brings me to another mental exercise. How many times did we actually exert effort to have that time to spend with our loved ones? I certainly had the time, but the effort to make use of it had been futile due to the circumstances. Had I felt better (and had Jakjak felt better as well), we could have easily gone to the park, bike, scooter, go to the library and play games all day long. We did manage to get some playtime, but not as much as we both hoped for.
At least now I have that piece of thought in my head. It's not just about finding the time, it's also about making that time work for you.
It was going to be a long weekend. There were two public holidays making up the Lunar New Year. I was thinking, "that's a great opportunity to have time to spend with the little guy!". In this instance, the thought doesn't count as much as the action. While the prospect of having extra playtime was there, so was that prospect of having extra "me" time. For a lot of busy working people, that extra bit of time appears precious, so precious in fact that sometimes, we tend to cram so many things into it that we end up accomplishing less than what we sought out to do in the first place.
What I didn't expect was that I was going to be coming down with something. Not quite the flu, and not quite the sniffles, but it becomes this annoying little thing that stops you from appreciating that time off. And because I wasn't really feeling well, I barely had time at all to even get my thoughts together. I was just either unwell or nasty. In the end, I preferred just lying it off to ease the headaches that thinking brings about. And so, what was supposed to be a good excuse for spending extra time with Jakjak didn't really end up as time at all.
This brings me to another mental exercise. How many times did we actually exert effort to have that time to spend with our loved ones? I certainly had the time, but the effort to make use of it had been futile due to the circumstances. Had I felt better (and had Jakjak felt better as well), we could have easily gone to the park, bike, scooter, go to the library and play games all day long. We did manage to get some playtime, but not as much as we both hoped for.
At least now I have that piece of thought in my head. It's not just about finding the time, it's also about making that time work for you.
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