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Friday, February 22, 2008

When is a good time?

I post so rarely these days. But not from a lack in things to say about the world. My opinion is probably best expressed through this medium than any other. Perhaps I simply require a timeslot, a schedule. In the evening when my day is done, and I can better comprehend the events which have transpired. Or in the morning when my mind is fresh and full of ideas begging to be brought to the forefront of my cognisant thought? Before transpired events have beaten the freshness from my tired eyes, fingers and feet.


One can feel tired at most any time. Ranging from "Oh it's too early for that" to "Not tonight, I've had an enormous day", I always have an excuse destined to halt my creativity, my productivity, my fulfilment of intention, my fulfilment of desire. Energy is what I need, or simply to feel energised. Are they one and the same? Is being energised and feeling energised equal states of being? Does my constant pondering of the situation only prolong my procrastination? Will these rhetorical questions ever be answered? Will they be answered meaningfully? Will they even be read?

Which leads me back to the original question of this post, "when is a good time"? Good time for what? I seem to asking an endless stream of questions to the invisible man only in view of my minds eye. In which case I'd best attempt to answer at least one of these questions before they all become rhetorical and circular and moot.




Action. When is a good time to take action? To be active? To not be inactive? We all constantly find ourselves sitting, pondering, contemplating (which, while very similar to pondering, is not quite the same) instead of taking action at many moments throughout our days. It's quite possible for us to be active in improving our lot on this spinning blue rock with every waking moment of the day. And every sleeping moment for that matter. Actively seeking out a better quality of sleep and then letting our bodies reap the benefits of that energising rest will make our waking hours far more productive. Simply by being mentally present in whatever task we are faced with will make us more actively involved individuals. Then leading by example, one by one, we can make the human race a less complacent bunch of monkeys.

So to the the invisible man I say, "all the time" is a good time.

Wow. Somewhere between deciding to make this post and finishing it, I went from armchair slacker to upwardly mobile human citizen. Perhaps there was something in the Chinese leftovers I reheated for lunch.

Keep it real... monkeys.

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