Morning Over Nightwork

Life is what happens when you are busy making up other plans.

A great quote. It's posted on the wall of our downstairs bathroom, along with a few others that aren't so easy to translate (some are a play on words). And the one on our bathroom wall is not a John Lennon quote btw, but according to Google the translation is. Just so you know.

But the point is: as I was reading that quote this morning, happy with the day so far and fully intent on accomplishing some creative writing this fine morning, I started thinking about my plans for the day.

I started thinking about how I'd post about this quote, what I could write with it, how I'd then paste in and post a bunch of movies reviews that have been left lying since the start of the week, maybe go through all my blogs from previous years instead of just planning to do so aaaand... guess what, I'm planning ahead again.

Which makes me think, the way I live is rather contradictory to this quote. Life isn't what happens when I make up other plans, life for me is making up other plans. I am constantly planning things that I either do or don't achieve, but a large portion of my time is spent on just that: planning. Planning ahead when it comes to my own life, the lives of others, the things I have on my todo list today, and tomorrow, and things I need to do next week, and things I should have done yesterday. I am constantly planning ahead, or back, or in all possible directions rather than doing what'd be a much better alternative: living in the now.

When I woke up this morning I was pretty efficient. I woke just before 7. I wrote down my dream of the night, I went down and tidied up the kitchen, went about quick Internet routines and started responding to one of three Creative Workshop texts I shall respond to today while crunching down on a bowl of cereal... all this before 8 in the morning. On a Sunday. And I feel great! I went to sleep waaaay too late the day before yesterday, but I woke up early anyway (but really tired) so yesterday I went to sleep earlier; actually fell asleep early; dreamt of food; woke up hungry, and happy, and so far the day has been great. It was just perfect until...

I read that quick tidbit of life advice on the bathroom wall. And now I'm writing this.

But, the original point of my 'Morning Over Nightwork' post was going to be to see if I could accomplish as much during the morning as I usually do during the night. You see, during mornings I usually stall, then I take a walk, then I eat lunch, then (either dazed by lunch, or tired from the walk) I have trouble focusing on the tasks at hand. This all boils down to what I assume is a basic lack of discipline, and it usually ends with me staying up late finishing work that I feel I should have been able to finish during the day. Today I decided to see if I could actually finish that work during the morning, and have the rest of the day free (to work on other things of which the deadlines aren't rapidly approaching). So, let's see shall we? I'm now going to take a break in writing this post and keep going only when I am done with these three pieces of workshop analysis of feedback. The break starts here.

And I'm done! I'm posting this 0:12 the day after! Where... did all that time go? It's incredible... this morning I didn't even feel like I was stalling. Somewhere along the line it must have crept up on me. Either that, or I am a true optimist when it comes to time and schedule and I really would have had no chance on accomplishing these tasks if I hadn't started in time. Whatever the meaning of life is: I'm happy I started in time. Good night. Soon as I watch the daily episodes of One Piece and Space Dandy (you see? I haven't been procrastinating! It's time to catch up on that now).