I haven't posted a while, and for a good reason. I've been pretty busy these past few days hanging out with friends before they head back to school to start the Spring semester. I guess since I have all this peace and quiet, I have lot of time to think - and I do think... about a lot of things. It's almost like my mind is a bunch of thoughts all piled up together like a messy room. Each thought is like a t-shirt, or pants, or some type of clothing strewn across the room. I occasionally have the time to sort out my "clothes," but only a part of the whole "room." I want to be able to clean and organize my "room" all in one day, but it is just impossible. Making progress one by one feels good, but things just want to start getting messy by itself again - nature at its natural course towards entropy again and again. I feel like organizing certain thoughts, doing certain things, but just not knowing which one to start with. I know that if I start on one thing, I'll want to see it through until i finish it. However, this may take a few hours, days, or even weeks. What will happen to the billions of other things I want to take care of? When will I ever get started on those, which to me are just as important?
In the end, I get nowhere - wasting all that time trying to decide where to start. I pride myself on having a lot of hobbies that I am interested in - on being a good multi-tasker. Sometimes though, this feels like my curse. Everything you can do in this world takes time. With each day we are limited to 24 hours. A good chunk of those hours need to be devoted to sleep. Another good chunk of those hours are devoted to the need to eat. In the end we are left with less than half of those 24 hours given to us in a day. Given those available hours, one can only do so much.
I don't mean to come across as pessimistic, even though that is how it sounds. I'm merely contemplating how I can prioritize certain activities over others - or how I can get myself to limit the amount of each activity I do per day. Motivation, I feel, is key here. Seeing that my winter break is almost done, I wonder why I waited until the last week to try to really sit down and sort these thoughts out. My whole day is basically free, so I have more than enough time to do this before I get bombarded with work and schoolwork. I guess it's never too late to start being efficient and prioritize. I won't say this is a New Year's resolution of mine, because it is a goal that I plan to accomplish every day, every year of my life. I know for a fact that there will always be...
so much on my mind.
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