Not enough time.
You know what I love? I love it when people will utter something like the following:
“I don’t have time for ______”
You know exactly what I’m talking about. You may be in a discussion with a person and as you mention something going on in your life, you hear the reply, “Oh, I don’t have time for ______.”
“I don’t have time for TV.”
“I don’t have time for blogging.”
“I don’t have time to watch movies.”
“I don’t have time to read.”
“I don’t have time to….”
Here’s the thing about that statement – about the, “I don’t have time…” statement – you do have time. You have plenty of time. You have time to do the things you need to do, and you have time to do things that you want to do. You just choose not to spend your time doing the activities I spend my time doing. Which is okay, but let’s get honest about it.
You have time.
Unless you work in a sweatshop for 20 hours a day (with no breaks), you have time to do the things you need to do, and some time to do some of the things you want to do. You have time.
I think we have created a culture in the West where busyness equates to importance. In other words, the more busy I am, the more important I am. For instance, if I mention to you that I enjoyed watching the season finale of “LOST” and you respond with, “Oh, I don’t have enough time to watch TV (insert hoity-toity, condescending laugh here)…”, you have just emerged as being more important than me.
Because you don’t “have enough time.”
But you do.
Because you spent three hours playing “Guitar Hero” on Wii last night.
(For the record, this mindset runs rampant in our churches. If you aren’t running around like a chicken with your head cut off, you are “lazy” or “inefficient.” Blech.)
Can I get an “Amen”? Does anybody know what I’m talking about? What has your experience with someone who “doesn’t have time”?
I had PLENTY of time to watch the season finale of LOST, AND I played Guitar Hero all night long, thank you very much.
Amen.
Amen! Cheating with a favorite quote because I don’t have time to write anything else….sleep beckons.
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.†~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
AMEN. What I find amusing is that if someone has different interests than you, and they spend their extra time doing THOSE things, instead of whatever YOU do, then they feel the need to belittle the thing you care about, instead of being like, “cool! you blog! I jog!” It’s almost like they feel threatened by the idea that someone cares about something else. Whatevs!