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I Don't Know What That Means or There's Nothing I Can Do

I would have swapped the titles' order, but it seemed to make the concept too obvious.

Distort your own time!
In the movies, there's sometimes a person who works a lot. Their family tries to involve them more with activities, get them off the phone or to avoid meetings. Sometimes if it's a dramatic plot, you'll hear "Your just working all the time to avoid your family and the people who care about you." Sometimes I feel like that, not like the person (because a. they aren't real and, b. no one tells me that) but I feel like I'm avoiding people. Here's the thing (and it sounds weird) It's not on purpose, but it is a choice.  I don't mean to avoid anyone or make them feel I don't care about what they are doing. I could pay attention to everyone, remember birthdays, second and third tier holidays, but I don't choose to take that time. I'm using my time for other things, and I think that's okay.


We Are What We Do

Notice that I didn't say I'm doing bigger things, more important or any derivatives. I don't mean them. I mean other. I'm active, involved. With what exactly changes over time but the motion, creation and sense of purpose is typically there.

Example. It's not that I don't like 'The Voice'. I do. But... it gives me anxiety to watch TV, too many movies or participate in entertainment in general. It's too much, fills too many hours of millions of days around the globe every day. I want to do stuff and nope, i don't mean go skiing or to the park, but rather working with the resort or figuring out a better way to do parks.

I bring all of this up because I recently heard the words

"There is nothing I can do."

I don't know what that means. Truly.

Don't say it to me, I'll be offended by either the overwhelming level of self pity brought on by either an apathy in regards to our intrinsic responsibilities in life for ourselves and the people around us or by the lack of empathy-affecting your ability to see all the people around the world that really need you to do at least your part just for yourself. Notice I didn't say "our" right there. I didn't mean that, either because many of us are doing our part almost constantly.

"There's nothing I can do."

Spoken by the truly lazy.

Offensive, yes? I've said it before and I can kind of recall what I was feeling.

It's a popular sentiment that usually isn't true even in the most dire of circumstances and there really is always something you can do. It might be different than what you'd hoped for or planned for, but

GO DO IT!

Courtesy: Alyssa Dawson, 2015
And if you aren't going to, just be honest and tell everyone so we can stop putting our time into you and your life as well, it's the polite thing to do.

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