Caffeine and Toast do not a balanced diet make!

Why all the energy drinks?

I realise that it has been sometime since I last wrote on here, in some ways I want to apologise but in others, it is an apt example of what today's rant is about.

Too busy

How often I seem to be using that word, BUSY (in Greek this is echô ), funny because no matter how many times I seem to confabulate those words, its remedy and longing for stillness, rapidly becomes distant, akin to its a Greek equivalent (my motive disappears like an echo).

"Yes of course I have Time time time time time ..." Yeah Right!

But I think one of the reasons why the world and I seem to lust for busyness is that it seems 'normal'.

Normal in the sense of this is how we were meant to live. I hate the pace of my life, I don't live, I get things done. And this 'getting by-ness' disturbs me. There was a time, yesteryear, when I would enjoy asking a random layman "How are you?", now I avoid the question in fear of launching myself into a conversation I don't have time for if the reply is "Not so good".
Funny, still, that this even happens in the cyberworld ...


Bob says:
Hi how are you

Sally says:
Not to bad thx and u?

Bob says:
um not that great..

Sally says:
Oh what's up (knowing that she can escape if it gets too intense, but secretly regretting asking, and look, our friend Sally didn't even put a question mark at the end, she assumes a positive response!)

Bob says:
never mind, i'm ok (deep down knows that Sally has no interest in His life and thus seems to appear ok)

Why can we be so free and unoccupied to ask and yet too busy to take a vested interest, like a facade of friendliness?
What is with all the energy drinks, like a plague, they are becoming more numerous and intense by the day and as for our reliance on caffeine, a trip to America soon introduces you to the Starbucks (c) religion.

Anything and everything says we must operate at the speed of our computers... (I mean let's be honest, haven't we all got frustrated when an Internet page takes more than 10 seconds to load, I for one confess that my mouse clicking becomes more than erratic, not to mention the steam coming from my ears)

We are running around like ants do when you kick their hill.
But I've decided, I want to make a stand, be that one ant that stops moving, I don't care if I get separated from my pack (or whatever an ant tribe is called)

I want to live differently.

Before I sound like a cynical old man (too late you may argue), I do want to bring some positivity out of this as it does seem, that nowadays, no news is good news.
The shear fact that you are reading these conjoined words should release some of your well-deserved 'feel-good' endorphins as you are taking time to read, and maybe you should be proud that you DO have time.

As for me, if I really want to live differently, I'd show some sign of that in my choices, which is why I am going to turn off this computer and enjoy what is left of this beautiful day!

Blessings, if we have time