Is if just me or is everyone crazy busy these days? Kay and I are busy all the time, and we don’t even do that much! My friends are busy. Everyone at work is busy. Even my Doctor is crazy busy. I was telling her during a visit how Kay looked so skinny in some pictures now, and I emailed her one of the pictures in question the next day. She emailed me back a couple weeks later to thank me, and said she was sorry to take so long to get back to me but things had been chaos. It sounded so much like something I would say. I thought here is a doctor with a successful practice, no children and still she is inundated in business like all of us.
How can we possibly keep up with the pace of modern America? We can be and do everything right? We can have an active social life while holding down a career and raising a family. Don’t forget to volunteer to help your community. Stay in shape. Answer all your emails. Keep up your myspace page. Blog. Do more. Be more. Go. Go. Go. More. More. More. I don’t want to go all minimalist or nihilist or anything, but Thoreau’s “Simplify. Simplify. Simplify,” makes a lot of sense when faced with modern America.
Why does it have to be that way though? What if we chose to do less? What would that look like? What would I give up? Cycling? Writing blogs? Can’t quit my job. Have to take care of Mack. There’s got to be a way to simplify life. I’d love to hear some opinions on this one. Am I off base? Is modern life not really a hectic crazy hundred mile an hour experience? Is it just my misguided perception? Also, what are some ways to tame it if it is a crazy ride?
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