10.38.
Last night I decompressed by sneaking in a late night post.
Today I rose unwillingly, took Julia to wood turning, wrestled with my car clock (I always forget how to reset it when the clocks alter) and sat down at the computer.
A tour of bloggers, a few comments, check my emails and i am about to write a post so it isn’t hanging over my head. I will then make final adjustments to two submission emails and, after sending them off, I will, as I said last night, re-evaluate my life.
I am, once again, doing too many things for other people and not enough for myself. I like writing about coins, for instance, but I don’t want to write something new every week. The idea was that I would assist in filling the Facebook page with content and encourage other people to contribute. I managed the first bit, but the second has not happened. We have people in the society who could contribute, but they want to pursue their own projects and won’t even do a few hundred words for the society. Well, I have my own projects too.
My first priority is family. My second is my writing. I like writing. I have had ambitions to be a writer since I was about 8 years old. Sadly, the ambition never came to much, but in retirement I have a small window of opportunity and really don’t want to waste it.
It’s like the rugby club. I have just been reading a piece about a junior rugby tour and it has brought back all sorts of memories, some good, but some not. People tell you that you’re doing good work, but when you ask other parents for help you find they all have other things to do.
This is, I think, a good place to stop.
keep writing
In general, yes, because it keeps me happy. 🙂
“Untimely ripped” methinks
🙂
Spring is here, and with the warmer weather will hopefully come more good things. It sounds like you are giving serious thought to life, and what makes you happy.
Yes to both – better weather and thinking. 🙂
Ah yes – having been involved in a few things in the village in a voluntary capacity, it gradually came as no surprise to look around the room, field etc and to see the same faces each time. Many people have lots of opinions to share about how things ought to be done, but suddenly turn very quiet when the actual jobs are being shared out.
We once had a man with an idea when I was on a committee in Yorkshire. He was invited to put his idea (going round schools to do coaching sessions) and asked what he would need to put it into action. At that point, he went ballistic. How dare we, he demanded, expect him to take time off work to do it. That was our job.
On another committee someone actually said “I have lots of ideas so if you ever want ideas feel free to ask.” I have lots of ideas too, but I only have 24 hours in a day. Idiots!
Oh dear, does my cynicism show?
“Scratch any cynic, and you’ll find a disappointed idealist.”, I thought that was Ambrose Bierce, but t’internet says its George Carlin. Apparently Bierce’s definition was “Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.”
I like both, but not my faulty attribution.
When you check them, many attributions are faulty. Things I have “known” for years come tumbling down . . .
Been there, done that. I do a wee bit of volunteering, but I have cut way back and mostly focus on my own work.
It’s easy to work for nothing and have no time for yourself.
Too easy!
🙂
It is always the way: Those behind cry “Forward”, and those ahead cry, “Back”
🙂 😉 🙂