Comments on: Busy bees and busted knees http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/08/29/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/ Family | Life | whatever's on my mind Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Boaterbob http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/08/29/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Boaterbob Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:28:36 +0000 http://family.ncambium.com/jt/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/#comment-80 Slowing life down as a 52 y/o who still thinks as if he is in his twenties and thinks he still has 75% of his life to go and in reality only maybe 30% to go is becoming a complex competing process. I have many things yet to do. Things I want to do. This year I have had a lot to deal with and it ain't over...both the year and things to deal with. But I have made time, if not only for a moment, been able to step off the chaotic frantic path to slow down and take stock of things. On a partly cloudy somewhat cool day look up to the sky...you have to be outdoors to do this. When was the last time you were walking out to your car for you next meeting or appointment or going to work and looked up from the ground before your feet and noticed the rest of the world? Whiskey in the shower sounds good but I probably would need to have one of those little stools in there with me. I have made me a huge high ball and sat in a hot tube with candles and music and cigars a blazing. Last time I did that was a couple years ago or longer. Some evenings I have had some beers and fired up the DJ system and played my music much to the chagrin of some who come home early or my neighbor who called the cops years ago. But hey, as the beer flows the hearing goes, what can I say? In a pinch and in a time when I really can't take the time and in the midst of realities I'm in, I do find it helpful to think of what it might be like when this is past and I can do some of the things I will do after and am looking forward to doing. Play at the lake, "Overhaulin" my boat", fixing up my house finally - the way I have envisioned it all these years and being free of the junk I have collected or held onto. Don't wait for life to slow down on its own because it won't and the crap will pile up. Do what you have to and reward yourself somehow afterward, you will enjoy it more. I had a mini vacation last night when I treated me to a strawberry sundae. I savored each bite with focus on the pleasure they gave me all the way to the bottom of the glass. I sat back in my seat, eyes closed. Then opened my eyes and went back to the hospital to sit with Mom and Dad wondering if I will ever get down to AZ to finish up there. The little escape was refreshing if only for the moment. Slowing life down as a 52 y/o who still thinks as if he is in his twenties and thinks he still has 75% of his life to go and in reality only maybe 30% to go is becoming a complex competing process.
I have many things yet to do. Things I want to do. This year I have had a lot to deal with and it ain’t over…both the year and things to deal with. But I have made time, if not only for a moment, been able to step off the chaotic frantic path to slow down and take stock of things.
On a partly cloudy somewhat cool day look up to the sky…you have to be outdoors to do this. When was the last time you were walking out to your car for you next meeting or appointment or going to work and looked up from the ground before your feet and noticed the rest of the world?
Whiskey in the shower sounds good but I probably would need to have one of those little stools in there with me. I have made me a huge high ball and sat in a hot tube with candles and music and cigars a blazing. Last time I did that was a couple years ago or longer.
Some evenings I have had some beers and fired up the DJ system and played my music much to the chagrin of some who come home early or my neighbor who called the cops years ago. But hey, as the beer flows the hearing goes, what can I say?
In a pinch and in a time when I really can’t take the time and in the midst of realities I’m in, I do find it helpful to think of what it might be like when this is past and I can do some of the things I will do after and am looking forward to doing. Play at the lake, “Overhaulin” my boat”, fixing up my house finally – the way I have envisioned it all these years and being free of the junk I have collected or held onto.
Don’t wait for life to slow down on its own because it won’t and the crap will pile up. Do what you have to and reward yourself somehow afterward, you will enjoy it more. I had a mini vacation last night when I treated me to a strawberry sundae. I savored each bite with focus on the pleasure they gave me all the way to the bottom of the glass. I sat back in my seat, eyes closed. Then opened my eyes and went back to the hospital to sit with Mom and Dad wondering if I will ever get down to AZ to finish up there. The little escape was refreshing if only for the moment.

]]> By: Dem0critus http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/08/29/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Dem0critus Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:57:27 +0000 http://family.ncambium.com/jt/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/#comment-75 Yeah, playing drunken scrabble is also surprisingly fun. Your loss of functionality makes it very much more challenging. Yeah, playing drunken scrabble is also surprisingly fun. Your loss of functionality makes it very much more challenging.

]]> By: Jess http://www.jtmitchum.com/blog/2005/08/29/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Jess Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:54:28 +0000 http://family.ncambium.com/jt/busy-bees-and-busted-knees/#comment-74 I find that either being really bored (ex: waiting during a layover at the airport), dreading something (ex: waiting for your plane to take off) or terrified out of your mind (being on a one hour flight in a small plane when the pilot is flying like a drunken sailor) works quite well if you want to get life to go really, really slowly. Having fun generally speeds things up, unfortunately - unless it's a really mellow kind of fun where you're hanging out at a lake for a few days with several good books and a Scrabble board. I find that either being really bored (ex: waiting during a layover at the airport), dreading something (ex: waiting for your plane to take off) or terrified out of your mind (being on a one hour flight in a small plane when the pilot is flying like a drunken sailor) works quite well if you want to get life to go really, really slowly.

Having fun generally speeds things up, unfortunately – unless it’s a really mellow kind of fun where you’re hanging out at a lake for a few days with several good books and a Scrabble board.

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