busy-ness

anyone who visits my blog can see that it has been quite some time since the previous post. he or she can also plainly observe that i tend to start every blog by saying something like "it has been too long since i have posted a blog!". alas, it has been too long since i have posted a blog.

hopefully, you will infer that i am busy doing things which are much more important than blogging. maybe you say to yourself: "i'm sure he, thomas, is simply too preoccupied with spending time in orphanages, or perhaps he is merely doing research on a cure for a deadly illness. yes, i'm sure this is why he does not ever update his blog." if you think these things, you are wrong. but you are a sweetheart.

the truth is, no one knows what i do. people with whom i was once in great companionship approach me often with the question, "where have you been, dude?!" and i reply, "oh, you know, around." (i find it more humorous to be vague and mysterious than answer simple questions.) tonight i have a spare thirty minutes. i thought i'd take it to give a run-down of my week, and say what's on my mind about the excuse of busy-ness. see photo below:

being busy is something that i hear people talk about a lot. it seems, by the way we talk, that we are all on the verge of pulling our hair out at all given moments in time because of the amount of things that we are required to do. we say things like "i wish there were more hours in the day."

(by the way, can you imagine how awful things would be if there were one more hour in the day? the earth would have to rotate 1/24 slower than it does now. everything on earth would be exposed to more heat. our sleep cycles would become offset. we'd have to invent a new system of time keeping. no longer would our seconds, minutes, and hours fit evenly into our now 100% efficient and super-productive days. i think the earth might throw the moon into the abyss of space, causing our ecosystems to rot and humanity to slowly fade from existence.)

i think if i were an enemy to the human race, i would try and do things to convince people that they were "too busy." if i were clever enough, i might want humans to be forced to depend on iphones and blackberries just to keep up with what they have to do in a given day. because in general, the busier you think you are, the more miserable you are. but i would be willing to bet that a majority of american people have more free time than they even realize.

perhaps the natural human sleep cycle was developed by someone who knew that we (humans) would be busy. perhaps it is not an accident that the ratio of dark hours to daylight hours is equal to the comparison between the time we spend asleep and awake. perhaps when we are near the end of our lives, we will look back and think, "i wasn't that busy at all."

if you make a calendar of your week filled with every single event that takes time from your day, you might be pleasantly surprised to find time you didn't know was there.

-thomas