Thursday, September 18, 2008

Tipped Scales

I don't think I'm very good at balancing my life. I tend to get very focused on the things I have to do and places I have to be at this point in my life and tend to forget about the other things and other people for a while.

I'm horrible at email. I don't keep in touch with people I don't see regularly. I'm out of touch with so many people who were once good friends in school or work.

I've often thought that my best friend and I are a perfect match because we both go off and live our separate lives for months at a time without talking and then come back as if no time had passed. Is that really such a good thing though?

Maybe it would have been better if I were forced to see her more often. I wish I could see them more often. What do you do though when you have to work from 3pm-midnight every weekday? I don't have the time or energy to do anything after work. As for the weekends, how do you split 2 days between yourself, family, boyfriend and friends? There just aren't enough hours in a day, or enough free days, for that matter. I think this is where all those feelings in a past post are coming from. Life shouldn't be this hard to live.

Anyone who can help me figure this out, please comment!

4 comments:

Liv said...

As for the weekends, how do you split 2 days between family, boyfriend and friends? ----> You forgot yoursel....how do you split 2 days between family, boyfriend, friends and yourself. =)

After being married for 2 years, I realized how important that time for myself is. I wish I spent more time for myself when I was single

Avril said...

Oh wow, you know I thinking just that while I was writing it? It definitely is important and I definitely don't do enough of it...then I go and not write it down altogether. Freud would definitely say something about that!

:( So, how do you do it? You seem to have an extra 5 hours for every day, with all the stuff you get done.

dreamwalker said...

The thing about friends "going off and living separate lives for months..." - I think it is a good thing, maybe because I am in a similar situation with friends. I think this fact is a measure of how deep your connection to each other is.

Avril said...

I used to think that. It's still something I believe, but now I'm thinking about the parts of her life that I missed. :(

Geez, this is just my best friend. What'll I be like when I have a daughter?