"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
~ Charles Buxton
~ Charles Buxton
I read a blog post today on the topic of a balanced life that could, more or less, have been penned by me (it wasn't). I too can search my blog archives to reveal numerous blogs on the subject. My life is full and varied. I thrive on the variety, I relish the challenges and I am grateful for the array of people, hobbies and opportunities that comprise my life, but with so much to juggle, it's hard not to let things drop.
This, coupled with a persistent desire to grow and learn, grasp opportunities, seek challenges and make memories can leave me rather exhausted and unable to see how best to balance the creativity with the work life, the friendships with the me-time and the hobbies with the 'figuring out life' thing.
I scrapbook, I think, I journal, I laugh, I travel, I eat chocolate, I spend a lot of time with friends, I spend a lot of time with my husband and I blog to untangle my life in my head. In blogging I try to capture the areas of my life that are teaching me the most and in so doing I often forget to capture my life as I used to. My earlier blogs caught moments of profundity from the kids I taught, moments of hilarity with my housemates and moments of transition, in amongst the lessons.
I love to do so many things but there are only so many hours in a day and so many days in a year. I worry that if I spend so much time blogging/journalling and figuring out life, that I won't just let it happen to me, and yet writing and learning are, to me, sources of great and pure joy. These delights are second only to the experiences themselves that prompt my flurry of words or discovery of something new.
I haven't got any answers just yet. Our lack of any free evenings or weekends until mid-October is testament to the fact our lives are full and yet if you look closely through the pages of my diary you'll notice every Thursday is date night - just me and the Photographer - and once every couple of weeks there is an evening pencilled in for me-time, so we're getting there on the whole balance thing.
I just hope I don't acquire any more hobbies or balls to juggle just yet...!
Much love,
xx
Balance can also be spread out across your life. I am in a quiet period, although I know that in time this will return to manic style next year when B and I start planning the family.
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Do you read this lady's blog:
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This was her most recent entry and it was about working too much; I thought it tied in a little with what you've been writing about.
See you soon,
Blue Eyes xx
Oh and I think you might enjoy this:
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and this:
http://livingthisordinarylife.blogspot.com/2011/09/thankful-thursday_15.html
I am reading her blog quite a lot nowadays and it's really good!
Oh and I have a book I might lend you. Hmmm...
xx
It is hard to fit in everything you want to do...until you're retired! Most of our activities outside of being home revolve around church/Bible study/Gideons. I guess I could say that blogging is my main "hobby" now.
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