As a teacher I would say that I am extremely aware of empty time in my life. Whether I am attending a concert and there is dead time between musical groups, or I am sitting in an inservice where we have been given more time than is needed to use the facilities, I am sometimes more aware of the empty time life gives us than I would probably like to admit. Going through teacher education, my professors always took points away for any time that we had our students in the room that wasn't being used constructively, so maybe that is where this mindset developed.
Last night as I was watching the end of the 2010 World Series I was reminiscing on why I do not watch baseball anymore. Maybe it's because I've actually experienced baseball from the stands and watching it on television is not the same anymore. Or maybe I can't afford to sit in front of the television for that long with my busy schedule, but yet I can spend every Saturday afternoon watching a four hour Auburn football game. I really feel as though I have allowed my life to get too busy. I find myself frustrated with idea of "wasting" my life with empty time that amounts to nothing. Instead I need to slow down and cherish the people that surround my life at this very moment. Next year the students will go on to eighth grade and I will have very little if any communication from them or their parents, and my colleagues will eventually move on to bigger and better endeavors.
Have you slowed down lately and enjoyed the not so "empty" time in your life?
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