Time is the Master
Posted by Todd on July 24, 2007
Tick, tick, cuckoo, tick, beep, tick, tick, tick
And then the guitar kicks in. Pink Floyd certainly knew what they were talking about when they wrote this song. Of course, they were probably on LSD and time was not moving at the paces we are used to. But, as I sit here listening to Time and trying to write my first post in a week the words seem appropriate.
“You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today”
The week since my last post has just flown by me. I worked a hellish day before hopping in my car and driving the four hours or so back to my place in Northern Virginia. I then spent the next two days working from home before leaving town again. After working through a weekend and spending two out of ten or so nights in my own bed I became totally disoriented. Making matters even worse was my not so successful apartment hunting over the weekend in Manhattan. It was probably a bad idea to wait until the last minute to find a place during the busiest time of year in the busiest real estate market in the country. This has made my previous second guessings even harder to ignore.
“And then one day you find ten years have got behind”
Sometimes it seems that I am just coasting in neutral through my own life. Days fly by and nothing significant seems to happen. I know I am not the only one who wonders why there doesn’t seem to be more than this. But, I really want to know what I can do about it. Since, we can’t stop time; we must be able to at the very least control how we spend it. And that is where I find myself a bit blocked on what to do with myself next. Sure, I keep myself entertained easily, I read a lot and play video games and watch TV and ultimately enjoy my life but whenever I get to thinking about a song like this one I feel that my pursuits are balanced too heavily toward the frivolous and less towards the important. Now, I just need to find some worthwhile pursuits to pair with my many less important ones so that I won’t look back on any of this with regret.
“Every year is getting shorter; never seem to find the time”
Asian Mistress said
“Sometimes it seems that I am just coasting in neutral through my own life. Days fly by and nothing significant seems to happen. I know I am not the only one who wonders why there doesn’t seem to be more than this. But, I really want to know what I can do about it.”
That is me a lot of the time – had a lot of issues with it lately. What am I doing, why? Also, what have I done the past three years of my life? I guess we can blame it on our age. That and, the fact that there are entirely too many choices and options in life.
I think that in time, we’ll realize what it is that we’re really searching for, that higher cause or purpose – or reaching whatever goal it may be.