Time Saved to Waste Time - A Thought for a Day
May 19th 2010 02:41
New segment hey, Earl? How's that working out for you?
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save" - Will Rogers
I can see where ol' Will is coming from. Time saving devices, speeding, instant messages inevitably leads to reality TV, drug use and planning violent insurrection, for some people.
But I never have that problem.
I never struggle to find something to do with my free time; I always have heaps of things I could do, want to do, have to do! (In the very least I can always pick up my guitar and noodle)
My problem is that I can't decide what thing it is I want to do at any given moment, especially when trying to anticipate how long something might actually take to do.
I hate stopping something without finishing once I've started, so often I'm like `hmm, I have a couple of hours to spend, can I read this new Terry Pratchett book in two hours? No? I'll read it another time then.
This is probably part of why I like comicbooks so much; you can read them in a few minutes if you want, or take your time and spend hours pouring over the art.
Which is why more people should read comics (good ones; there are many that aren't) and learn to play an instrument; by being more like me this problem put forward by Mr Rogers will be easily solved.
You're welcome.
Earl
Noodling tends to win out.
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save" - Will Rogers
I can see where ol' Will is coming from. Time saving devices, speeding, instant messages inevitably leads to reality TV, drug use and planning violent insurrection, for some people.
But I never have that problem.
I never struggle to find something to do with my free time; I always have heaps of things I could do, want to do, have to do! (In the very least I can always pick up my guitar and noodle)
My problem is that I can't decide what thing it is I want to do at any given moment, especially when trying to anticipate how long something might actually take to do.
I hate stopping something without finishing once I've started, so often I'm like `hmm, I have a couple of hours to spend, can I read this new Terry Pratchett book in two hours? No? I'll read it another time then.
This is probably part of why I like comicbooks so much; you can read them in a few minutes if you want, or take your time and spend hours pouring over the art.
Which is why more people should read comics (good ones; there are many that aren't) and learn to play an instrument; by being more like me this problem put forward by Mr Rogers will be easily solved.
You're welcome.
Earl
Noodling tends to win out.
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