Jun 12 2008
Thing #5: A Response to “Nothing is Important”
And a student wrote this! Such insight! Being free, dirt roads, and Winnie the Pooh too! If I were Julia Roberts, I would burst into song: “These are a few of my favorite things…”
I have always hated the keeping of a schedule or calendar of where I needed to be when. Of course, with more than one person in a household, it’s a necessity. But as the month fills up with obligations, I feel more and more weighed down. I want to keep the days open so I/the family can be spontaneous. I love to do what I feel like doing at the moment! But I am a practical person and know that we must be bound by our duties and responsibilities.
“Bound” by schedules or “Free” to be spontaneous–the choice isn’t hard. Whether you call it “stopping to smell the roses” or being spontaneous, these are the moments that make memories. These moments of doing nothing usually produce the precious pictures in our minds that we want to keep from fading.
Just as the extremes of one season causes us to appreciate the extremes of another season, so the rush and bother of our responsible self makes us appreciate the nothing..or everything.
Don’t miss the original article by Aarthus Erea @ Student 2.0.
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Wow - you are so right. We are bound by our duties and responsibilities, along with commitments, but it does make life complicated and “bound”. It would be nice to have more time to be more spontaneous, but as my children get older it seems harder to find those moments. I just took my son up to UGA for his orientation this week and I’m realizing that I wish I had more of those spontaneous moments to look back on. The few that we had are definitely the ones I remember. With sports schedules (I have 2 boys that play baseball and football), it has been hard to do anything but run from place to place. How I wish we had more time…