Life, time management, and connection.

I don’t like talking on the phone. This isn’t a great thing, particularly for my family and friends I don’t see often, or at all. My work life is consuming, days are too long and allow no time for anything but work, home to sleep, and rise to work again. When my days are freed up, the time is precious, full of resting and regrouping, caring for health & well being, attending to day to day errands and maintenance, along with feeding of my mind and spirit. There seems less and less time in the day to simply sit and talk on the phone, that time of “simply sitting” I prefer for my yoga practice. It feels terrible to think of it as a “waste” of time, not as though catching up and connecting with people I care about isn’t fulfilling. It’s just often not how I choose to spend the time I have. Yes, I’ll own this as a choice I’m making. It doesn’t feel any better, but presents an opportunity to look at and figure out how and where to make the time. Am I just asking too much of myself, time, life? Do I cap the length of a conversation, make it known at the start? How to choose with whom and on what day at what time to get on the phone with? Once I get into the conversation it’s enjoyable, but when it’s finished and an hour or more has passed, frustration sets in. In the grand scheme of things and struggles, this isn’t the worst of course. Just something I turn over in side and think about, in hopes of getting out of my own way about, before those people are no longer around to chat and connect with.

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