Time

Ever heard the expression "time is money"? In my life it's more like "time is nonexistent". Or is it?

What I've come to realise is that I have a lot of time, I just haven't been using it well. At the beginning of the school year, getting back into the hang of things, I didn't really have a schedule. I just did things as I thought of them. As you can imagine, it didn't work too well. I ended up forgetting assignments or doing them at the last minute (I have a tendency toward procrastination).

This past week, my mom and I (is that the correct grammar?) thought up a schedule. Every day but Monday I follow the same routine; FST at this time, French at this time, Electronics at this time, etc. I've found that this week, even with more work, I have more free time than I did before. I have 9 periods during the day (including lunch); each of these ranges from 30 minutes to an hour. I start school at 8:00am (if I don't sleep in... gasp!) and end at 4:00. Anything I was unable to complete during those periods is homework to finish as I like (within reason).

Now that my life is organised, my school work is done on time, I have more free time, and just about everybody is happy except for my evil messy side. I don't think he'll be a problem though, he only comes out on full moons.

Posts

I don't post very often, but this isn't because I forget about my blog (most of the time). Rather, it is the fact that I cannot think of something to write about. I have great ideas and thoughts during the week, but I sit down at the computer to write my blog, and they all disappear. I think I have writer's block. What I need is a writer's sledgehammer. If you find one lying around, let me know.

Importance

What do we as a culture think is important? What do we set values on?
I realized today that most of the things that I care most about are frivolous and/or pointless. Take video games for example, I set a big value on winning this game that takes only half an hour and affects nothing in the real world except my ego. Another example is food; I would choose ice cream over salad just about any time you would ask me, yet how does the ice cream help me other than tasting sweet? There are a lot of things that I take to be more "important" than my devotions and schoolwork just because they're more "fun". I would also rather have more stuff too. If I had a choice between doing my homework and getting a free video game, carton of ice-cream, etc, sadly, I would choose the stuff.
I think that today, we set more value on pleasure, belongings, and laziness than on work and genuine accomplishment. All of us avaricious, materialistic, funaholics need to re-focus our goals and look at what's really important.(including me)

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