Serenity Now!

This life that I lead from Monday through Friday I believe is the equivalent to a month of most people all crammed into a 5-day span.

I am up before dawn and home after sunset if home is even where I go at the end of a school day. The week is intense and goes by as a blur. Sometimes I feel like a car battery that has been used to jump start a thousand cars and it has taken all the juice out of me. I need the weekend to recharge. It is essential to my well-being, it is my call for serenity.

This time in my life is even busier as basketball season is approaching and extracurricular life demands even more time than I am already giving. Compounding this with my desire and responsibility to spend as much time as possible with my wife and family during a very precious and dwindling time.

When I was younger, the days seemed to last forever and now they are over in an instant. Why does it have to be so complicated? Why do I load myself with responsibilities and commitments? I know very well why I do...I just wish sometimes I could take a time-out and everything would pause...time would not pass...just pause.

My day started at 6:15 am when I woke up...the time is now 2:35 in the afternoon and I have been going non-stop. Beyond this is a basketball practice, a trip to the mall, a visit with the in-laws and hopefully, if nothing else pops up, a return to the home by 10:00pm. Serenity must wait.