The worst thing for anyone with a Type A personality to feel is failure. The point at which one realizes they have not held up their commitments.
At the beginning of the year, I promised 365 days of World History. What happened? Life happened.
The sad thing is that "I had no time" is not a viable solution to most problems.
We are allotted 24 hours in a day. If you hold 8 hours for sleeping and 8 hours for work or school, you are left with 8 hours for everything else. Eight hours to complete homework, eat, exercise, and god forbid, to travel from home to office/school in traffic.
Completing homework obviously should not take eight hours, and it never will. At maximum, homework and studying takes about four hours. But with the combination of a phone and unlimited access to social media, homework seems to take about six hours.
"Wait, you mean that tweeting about tomorrow's chemistry test doesn't count as homework? Oh."
Nevertheless, breaks are absolutely necessary. It's okay to indulge every once in a while, but I honestly should have spent my breaks writing rather than scrolling through my news feeds.
The point is that "I had no time" is usually a personal excuse we use to push the blame off of us and onto something inanimate. Something that no one can team up with. We live in a culture where there's so much to do and so many choices to make, so of course not everything is possible. We all struggle with the same ugly beast, time. Therefore, we are forgiving of one another when commitments are not met. "She had no time to do it." And we accept that because we have been in the same situation.
Just as of a few hours ago, my opinion was that there's no such thing as "having no time"; we have to make time for the things that matter to us.
But all of a sudden, I feel tied in to a sensation I cannot name. It's as if I'm surrounded by limitation.
We are granted the gift of choices. The gift of freedom. The gift of education. The expanse of the graceful gift is almost endless. And that is almost the problem.
Each individual has hundreds of decisions to make but only 24 hours to make them each day. To go to school or to not go to school? To play tennis or to do dance practice? To go for a jog or to visit the new restaurant? To be or not to be? (Okay..maybe not that dramatic)
Each hour we get can be turned into something so valuable, or it could be wasted stressing about how we wish to spend the next upcoming hours. And the "I Had No Time" Phenomenon is simply the result of trying to fit 25 hours of possibilities into 24 hours of productivity. Originally, I wanted to inspire you to "make improvements, not excuses", but that would be a tad hypocritical. Instead, I want to inspire you to make each hour of your day worth it. Worth does not imply something necessarily productive. You may not get to everything you planned on, but make it enjoyable. Taking time out to just breathe and relax is definitely worth it. Take time out to just be.
