They say time flies and you don’t really get until you are older and the days merge to weeks and weeks to months before you know it.
Still just as much time has gone by 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 525,600minutes I know the last bit because of the musical Rent, but the point is whether you are 6, 16 or 60 you had the same amount of time.
Usually when you are in those in between 16 and 60 days there is a ton of stuff to do and the more stuff there is to do the fast time seems to go by because we have something to occupy your time.
Like for instance some days when I’m at work time seems to go by so slowly not because I have nothing to do, I just don’t always enjoy what I’m doing.
When I’m at home playing kill’em all dead video games the current one is Battlefield 3 and it is Bad Ass and I’ll admit I do more of the dying than the killing in most games time seems to slip by rather rapidly. Which is odd because the few times I’ve really been shot at seems to be forever, different story.
I’ve made a few new friends this year, and I won’t say lost a few friends but a few people I don’t have contact with any longer. I need to start a second jones calendar because that one is getting up there. You know a general jones not a specific jones.
The one jones is 3594 days and is not likely to get reset to zero … well ever… not likely doesn’t mean won’t ever but the temperature in hell is likely to be zero before the chance of that improves at all.
All in all I would say that 2011 was a pretty good year. Doodle got a new car, Stunt boy started high school, We all went to Cali to celebrate some family stuff, and lots of every day joys occurred every single day.
They say if you set your expectations low enough you’ll never be disappointed.
But what is wrong with some low expectations
If my significant other gives me a hug or kiss it’s going to be a good day
If you don’t have a significant other and have kids, if my kids tell me they love me it’s a good day
If you have friends and they talk to you or see how you are doing it’s going to be a good day or it was a good day if you do the daily summery of your day in your head.
I read things and it seems to be that we all set ourselves up to be disappointed or to fail because our expectations are too high or are unreasonable. That isn’t to say you should settle for good enough and striving for better is a good thing. So long as it isn’t an obsession.
We all have these ideas of perfection and how we want our lives to be but really how often are things ever really perfect or exactly how we want them to be. Sometimes by looking at the big picture we forget that to get there are a million little things that have to happen first and the million little things are important.
I could be more specific about a few of them or give an example or three but we all know what we don’t like about our lives and we know what to do to change our lives. Sometimes we really choose not to change our lives or we see what it takes to change what is happening and say it’s not worth it or that is not possible now.
The not possible now is sometimes the part of the equation that people outside looking in at the life they are giving a critical review fail to see. It’s easy to say that if someone has a failed they did something to cause that failure.
If you want to buy a new thing and the new thing costs so much money and you can only save so much money at a time it take x number of pay periods to figure out how long you have to wait to get said thing And you thought math wasn’t important in school. However today, getting said thing, not possible also not impossible just not happening today probably not tomorrow either. Perhaps someday but it is a building process.
You don’t have the perfect relationship started after one date.
You aren’t going to drop ten pounds after the first week of diet and exercise
You aren’t going to be the BAMF in the forest the first day you play a video game.
I don’t make resolutions at this time of year because, change what you don’t like everyday or at least start that change everyday. I lost drawing over the years, something I do for me and I enjoy it, I’m not the best artist in the world and I’m sure if I offered it up for pubic review it would be completely torn apart as lacking this, or it lacks depth, or the theme is too simplistic. I know all of those things and I say them in my head after I draw anything and I quit drawing. I started up again a while ago not sure when but I draw something nearly everyday.
I quit writing a while ago and if you scroll through the blog you’ll see the big gaps when I have lost track of doing this thing I like to do too. But I started doing this again as well. You know what you like to do and you know what brings you joy. Do those things.
You know what you don’t like about you or your job or your life. Change them don’t wait for the big calendar flip day to do it just start little by little. The next thing you know it will be 3 years 4 months and 20 days since you quit smoking or what ever it is that you changed. I haven’t been keeping track of that since I quit and had to figure it out just now.
Be you, and damn the H8rs
Happy Calendar Flip day to all of you all out there in the world who use the Julian calendar for those of you who don’t and there are those who don’t, hey how you doing today hope you have a good day too.
And if you have a Mayan Calendar fear you now have 353 days before the world ends, have a nice day.
Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely
Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday
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