Too little time
I have a mental list of things I’d like to do. You know - from small things, like, uhh… “clean windows” and “reorganize files on the computer,” to bigger things: “learn German,” “read some literature books, paper books,” “learn to dance without causing casualties on the dance floor,” “learn PHP,” “see some reference movies from the ’40s.” This list is constantly growing, and twice a year I am reminded of it: birthday and New Year. How many things I wanted to do did I complete in the past year? Three? Six? Eight? Fourteen? How many new things I wanted to do - seventy-five? That’s not working too well, is it?
I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m getting really frustrated about the limited time we have here. Not as in having a limited life, but the time in a day. So many things to do, so few hours. Sleeping, eating, travelling - they have become daily annoyances; I can’t wait to the day when a pill will give us all the energy our bodies need. Spending one hour out of 24 on public transportation - that adds up to 200 hours a year! - is simply unreasonable, when there are other things I could do in that hour.
Why does the day have only 24 hours? When God created Earth and made it spin around the Sun and itself, why did He decide on this amount of time? Would it have been much too difficult to make the day, say, 100 hours long? Nice, round number, and enough to cover everything one would desire. Stay up late at night and still get enough sleep without waking up late. Work for 16 hours, come back home, have a nap in the middle of the day then have the rest of the day for yourself. That would really be nice, eh?
Maybe I have too many expectations from life, too many “I want to” ’s. Or perhaps I suck at time management and prioritizing activities, and that’s why all the important things - like updating this blog regularly or finishing the Java exercise I have started a week ago - are constantly postponed. Maybe it’s a test for making decisions that really matter we all must take.
God, if you are reading this blog, please please please please please please slow down our planet.
