Secrets of time
This morning I thought I saw a monkey sit on the lamppost. Sitting on the toilet I miss the gecko’s crawling on the walls, but I am damn happy there is no risk of finding cobras in my laundry basket or scorpions crossing through my bedroom! When these thoughts pop up in my head I automatically start to smile. These small realizations show how the world is totally different for everybody. Some people never need to worry about what is absolutely normal for others. I remember when we left Asia behind and went to New Zealand my first thought was, “I can walk outside during the night without having to worry about snakes crossing my path”. Believe it or not, I felt pretty relieved with that realisation. The life we are used to in most Westernized countries is incredibly safe. So safe, we don’t realise anymore how safe it is. Instead, we close our lives off from each other and lose track of ourselves. These days I haven’t been writing that much because I got lost doing everything that ‘had to be done’ while telling myself I would do the things I like doing when I was done with the previous. Obviously, I was never done and there was always something else to do. It’s incredibly easy to lose yourself in all those actually not so urgent things. Waking up with this realisation I sat down and decided today was a day I would write, listen to music and go for a walk.
When you think you don’t have time it’s funny how easy you can suddenly spare time for something urgent such as getting your sink fixed. You thought there was no time left and suddenly there they are, hours to do what has to be done. So maybe, it’s not the lack of time, but the way we priorities that is the real cause of the problem. Don’t get this the wrong way, being back in Belgium I realize life is busy. For some busy may even be an understatement, but the number of people fighting burn-out and depression is staggering. Honestly, it scares me. Thinking about this, change becomes a necessity. We measure the growth of our economy, but we forget about the people who make it all happen. I refuse to believe this is the only way and I fight to avoid being part of the depressing statistics. Fight with me and make your life a good one. Take care of yourself, because without you being you there is no way forward. Give everything to make your life the way you imagined it to be instead of giving everything for something you don’t believe in.
