…A topic I’m extremely passionate about… and probably my biggest stumbling block when it get’s to Ma.

Time is my most important commodity. I really dislike wasting my time and feel strongly that you should use every second you are gifted.

It all sounds nice and wonderful, but it leaves you with a great discomfort if you pause or have moments of silence and nothingness. It feels like you are wasting your valuable time.

Can you be content with this apparent wastefulness? And if it is at all possible, how do you get there?

To be honest, I really don’t have the answer.

I can only tell you about a few practices in my life that’s still lacking, but more importantly, the practices that have brought me closer. Maybe they can work for you too.

If time is so precious, we should treat it with respect.

Okay, so my husband and I are real “Yes”-men. We tend to say yes to everything we are invited to. Sometimes this leads us to attend things we are not crazy about. If we would’ve declined the invite, wouldn’t we be better off? Isn’t it worse spending your time on something that doesn’t really add value (in any sense of the word), than enjoying a little peace and quiet – even if it’s a little uncomfortable?

As I said, this is a difficult one for us and I’m not sure how to go about to fix it. If we suddenly start declining invites, people will probably think there’s something wrong… But I’m sure there must be an elegant way to manage this. We’re just not there yet.

I’ve started writing this post 17 days ago – and then life happened. Since then our lives were put in a fast-forward mode and what I was planning to write changed somewhat.

So, the backstory here is that my husband went for surgery. It was planned surgery, but only for much later… then things changed all of a sudden and the surgery became more urgent and happened a week ago. This forced us first into rush mode – to get some things done pre-op, but then afterwards (especially now that things are starting to settle) everything slowed down and almost got to a standstill.

As he is recovering, we are now more housebound and need to adapt to a much calmer and slower lifestyle – than what we are used to. What an amazing lesson this is going to be in being content with Ma!

At this stage I don’t have much wisdom yet… I can just say that it really is something to get used to.

While gathering my thoughts and exploring this new normal, I’ll share some wisdom from Alan Watts with you. I found this on my Facebook Memories this morning and found it (once again) profound…