Finally Finding the Time

The Rolling Stones once wailed about how time was on our side, but that most definitely hasn’t felt like the case the past several months. I’ve actually been telling myself that I would be returning to blogging for several weeks but I kept having more work than I had hours, days and weeks to make time for it.

So, I am finally back to doing what keeps my mind alive and my thoughts in a public forum. I finally found the time to do one of my favorite hobbies - writing. But even with writing this blog, time has proven to be a problem. I wrote this over a month ago and it has taken me this long to sit down and actually get it posted.

Many of you probably know many of the details as to why I found myself low on time the last few months. When November started, I was working part time doing food delivery, part time as a reporter, part time as a substitute teacher, and part time as the CEO of my own little PR firm. But when November ended, I had a full-time job an hour away in addition to numerous other time-taking tasks that led to me having to let go of some of what I enjoyed doing.

A lack of time has cut into some of what I used to really appreciate having as part of my life, but I have also noticed it in other areas. I thought about time a lot when my mom passed away and it took months for the Medical Examiner’s office to do something they could have done the day they found her in her final resting place. They told me they needed more time. They didn’t. They just needed to do their job. But enough about that.

Time is something that has been in short supply when it comes to taking care of duties that have come about as a result of my new life circumstances. In addition to my role in handling the remainder of my mom’s estate, I also moved in early December. The past few months have been an adventure in procrastination as I have attempted to transfer items from a storage unit to my new home. If only I had more time, then maybe, just maybe, I could get it done.

I could probably sit here and ramble on forever talking about how time is lacking in my life. But, alas, I seem to be running out of time. But, I do intend to find more time moving forward because the pleasures of life seem to require spending time that otherwise might be wasted. Take some time to reflect on that. I’m sure I will, if I can only find the time.