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| 423.1 | I gotta run... | KYOA::HANSON | Me procrastinate? You Just Wait! | Wed Oct 28 1987 20:30 | 40 |
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Gee, I'd like to reply, but I don't seem to have much time...
8^)
Those are great lyrics, and I could see how they might have hit
home for you, for the way things in general are going these days,
I don't know of too many people who haven't stopped every now
and then, turned their back to the wind, only to realize that they
have to press on... usually too quickly.
How many times have we heard of this, and in how many ways?
"Take time to smell the flowers."
"As soon as I can get around to it."
"One of these days I'm gonna take time out for myself,"
And yet we still find ourselves feeling caught in a river of
time and passing events, realizing that if we stop for even a
moment, we'll be pushed backward like an exhausted salmon who
shouldn't have taken that last break.
Sometimes, we all feel a bit overwhelmed by the pace. Methinks
the best thing to do is to do as much as you can on any given day,
(today), leave for tomorrow those things you can't take care of now, and
take some time to yourself whenever you need it. For me, it's only
by keeping things as much in perspective as possible and adapting,
with a smile, to these changing situations that seems to allow me
to fully enjoy the time that I spent... today.
When things seem to get to fast for you, how do you cope with
the pace? If you had -n- amount of time, what would you do
to fulfill yourself?
It might be interesting to know.
Bob
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| 423.2 | warm and fuzzy | GNUVAX::BOBBITT | sprinkled with syntactic sugar | Thu Oct 29 1987 09:52 | 8 |
| I recently discovered a book covering just this kind of thing.
Leo Buscaglia's "Bus Nine To Paradise"
Kind of makes you feel warm and fuzzy and glad to be alive.
-Jody
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| 423.3 | trying to balance... | SAFETY::JACOBS | | Thu Oct 29 1987 19:05 | 13 |
| It reminds me of a line from (ee cummings? or ogden nash?):
Sometimes I sits and thinks
And other times I just sits.
I tend to put lots of things "on the stack" and wind up doing not
as much as I'd like, but lots of things anyhow... So what if I never
become a concert flutist or a famous artist; at least I've enjoyed
practicing. On the other hand, when I get in the mood for doing
nothing at all but sitting around in a sunny orchard... I go do it!
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| 423.4 | Female Singer | PNEUMA::DECAROLIS | | Fri Oct 30 1987 13:08 | 6 |
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Is that the lead singer from "Till Tuesday" singing the
backup female vocals in Time Stand Still???
jd/
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| 423.5 | | AXEL::FOLEY | This is my impressed look | Fri Oct 30 1987 13:12 | 6 |
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Yes, Aimee Mann IS singing backup on that tune and is in thier
video..
mike
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| 423.6 | them old songs | ARCANA::CONNELLY | Sing, for all the singing birds are gone | Tue Nov 03 1987 22:33 | 3 |
| Then there's "Time Won't Let Me" (the Outsiders?) and "Time
the Avenger" (the Pretenders) and "Time Has Come Today" (the
Chambers Brothers)...
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| 423.7 | No Time Like the Present | WLDWST::WASH | Enjoying the experience | Wed Feb 03 1988 06:53 | 11 |
| In our goal-oriented society, people can overlook the wonders of
the day by focusing on the dreams of tomorrow ...... always looking
ahead instead of embracing what surrounds them. We can make valuable
contributions to the lives of others (and thus to our well-being)
if we simply learn to enjoy/appreciate/accentuate the moments and
events that describe our daily existence.
Time has always been my friend - the passage of time is no threat,
it is instead a promise, a gift, an eternity.
Marvin
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| 423.8 | ENJOY THE PRESENT | SEDJAR::ORLOWSKI | | Tue Sep 13 1988 13:46 | 21 |
| I would like to talk to the people ( you know who you are ...) who
finally get a few moments, after your lawn is cut, after the trash
is dumped, after the house is cleaned, after the kids are asleep,
and so on and so forth, to sit and do nothing. Sometimes we even
take a day off by ourselves so we can escape all the daily tasks
(".....I'm not going to do anything today but relax and smell the
roses......"). After an hour or two of smelling, we start looking
for something to do because we are getting bored.
My point is this,,,,, Just because we are always busy doing something
doesn't mean we can't smell the roses while we are engaged in the
particular activity. If we would STOP rushing to finish a task or
STOP rushing to get somewhere so we can sit idle and get bored,
we would have our cake and eat it too.
....talk about relieving stress,car accidents.........................
RELAX AND ENJOY WHAT YOU ARE PERSENTLY DOING....................
-STEVE
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