There's a lot of tabs open in
my head because there's no such thing as downtime anymore.
No one sits and
stares into space anymore, there's always some way to distract yourself with
your phone: the endless emails, your Facebook feed, or your candy crush level.
Thoughts float
through my brain like clouds in the sky but they don't stick around. I'll want
to act on a thought, and open a tab to start, but it just stays open and then
gets added on to the never ending “To Do” list. Before you know it, your
browser window has 20 tabs open, nothing got done, and the bell just rang.
I have gotten a
chance this summer to just sit and enjoy the moment; that's what summer is for.
It’s almost impossible to be productive sitting in a beach chair, I challenge
you to try. I need to be like this all year though, I need to take time and
just stare into space and live in a thought for a few minutes.
One of the dilemmas I pondered
was this; do I act on my thoughts as I have them, or finish one task completely
before I start the next? I ran the risk of not remembering the ground-breaking thought
later, but I do complete actual tasks. I’ve tried the former method, but it led
to the endless number of tabs. I realized, as I stared into space this summer,
is that if I try to act on all my thoughts, I just have more. I don’t run out
of ideas, my hamster brain just keeps spinning on its wheel, churning out one
goofy thought after another.
So that’s one of my goals as
we embark on a new school year. Finish tasks and complete projects before I
start new ones. And sit in a beach chair more often.
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