Real Peace

Have you ever felt rushed? 

Like you're struggling to juggle so many things, that eventually,

you can't catch em all.

Maybe this isn't the case for all of you, but I think it can be pretty prevalent in today's society. We have so many wonderful, amazing, fun opportunities laid out before us, but it seems like we're never really enjoying them. 

The problem lies in when the dream turns into a job and the hobby into a chore. 

We struggle just making the bare minimum on all our commitments, nothing's fun, nothing turns out just right. Even in we're making progress, that's probably because we've dropped a ball already, but just haven't noticed yet. 

We want to simplify. We want to make our lives do a 180 and turn into organized, punctual people, with plenty of time and plenty of peace. And that's a good desire, but maybe we're going about it in the wrong way. 

We often think we need to cut back on all things we do, simplify the number, reduce the equation. But what would happen if we tried to change how we do things, not what we do?

Let's be honest, are we really up over our heads in obligations and responsibilities? We usually tend to say yes, but is that really the case? 

I don't know about you, but I still have time to eat meals without shoveling the food down my throat. I still have time to chat with my family and friends and play the piano. I still have time, apparently, to read the news and check Twitter every 30 mins. 

If we have to time to do all these other things, why don't we for the other ones? Maybe the problem isn't having time, perhaps, it's making time.

There are very few "good" reasons to procrastinate. Yet, we seem all do it. It's too difficult to tackle right now, so we push it off until later, where its difficulty is only compounded, not reduced. Then, we find ourselves hitting walls and deadlines, with no time to spare. We get so stressed out and panicked, that eventually we just need to take a break. That, I think, is why we waste so much time online on innocuously useless things.

We waste our time on them because they help us forget our duties and responsibilities, our tasks and obligations.

They're stress relievers, but not peace givers.

We're almost like alcoholics who drink to forget our problems, but instead, we turn to a digital numbing agent for ours. Eventually, we all have to sober up and turn to the situation, which only becomes worse from the absence.

We need to remember that finding solutions and overcoming our daily obligations is the only way to find peace. Shoving them to the side, ignoring them, or dropping them entirely won't fix the root of the problem.

Just because we have to do something, doesn't mean we shouldn't want to do it. Procrastinating doesn't make us happy. Wasting time isn't fun. It's not, trust me.

At the end of the day, the thing that makes me feel the most peace inside, the most satisfied with that day, is that fact that I actually accomplished something. That I did what was required and expected of me, so that when tomorrow comes,

I'll be ready.