do you ever, when you get the rare chance to, stop and think about what happens to all of our time? i won't go listing all those statistics about how many hours people spend sleeping, eating, watching tv, or waiting at red lights, those are just a waste of time.
however i will mention for your brain to reflect upon at a later time the broader concept of how we are spending our life.
we use so much brain power (speaking relative to the amount of brain activity we use on a daily basis, and not to how much our brains are capable of, which is another whole story) worrying about how we are going to order our day, take care of our to-do list and what we will be having for supper.
sometimes we don't even think think much at all, we simply wake up to an alarm set to a certain time, and so follows the rest of our day, ooop time to do this, oop time to do that.
so comfortable in routine and in our own little world (and let me tell you some people's world is only big enough for them and don't you dare mess that up because then they won't know what to do) that we forget we are alive and well and surrounded by amazing people, places, sight, feelings, and opportunities for a little adventure.
sometimes we are too busy in the head to look and look around.
our lives are booked till we're 65 and by then we will be worn out and grouch and nobody in the nursing home will really like you but they will all piety you because they know that you could be more if you would only open up a little.
is a mundane job just for the paycheck really worth doing nothing with your life? or even an exciting one that is eating up all of your time worth not having any stories to tell your grandkids that do not involve the stock market or a business trip or companies selling out to somebody else?
do something a little daring to day, buy a hot dog from that guy on the corner, meet someone new, take a vacation, eat your veggies, get an ice cream cone (it's better that way, that or right out of the carton), buy one for the person behind you, smile at someone, hold the door open..... go out on a limb... that's where the good stuff is.
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