Quality vs. Quantity
subtitle: Is your iPhone 3G yet?
Most live their life in search of quantity. Quality is a luxury few can afford. Which is more important to you?
I dreamed I was at the movies because a young female relative of mine wanted to watch an old movie. There were some other people there older than her but not my age. They began for some unknown reason, as often happens in dreams and in life, to tease her. I warned them to leave her alone or I would get the manager to throw them out of the theater. They ignored me and began to tease her. I was left with the delima of how to respond. It was just a dream. But It obsessed me as if it was real when I woke up.
I was sitting and talking with my best friend. We were playing Cut the deck. You take a deck of cards and cut it, and the highest card holder wins. I kept losing. It was pathetic. We were cracking up. But everytime I lost, my twin would lose it. I’m serious! She would laugh hysterically. If it had been anybody else laughing at me losing, I might not have liked it. But it was such a relief to see her laugh after being in so much pain these last couple of weeks that I couldn’t help it, I started laughing too.
You’d think this post would be about the quality of this moment. It’s not. It’s about the quantity of the time I spend with her. It’s more than I can stand. I’m a loner at heart. I prefer not to be around people. All you normals seem alike to me. And usually I can’t stand you. A little secret about blogging you might not be aware of boys and girls. But the best of us have a touch of “loner” in our hearts. You can write about what people around you are doing, but you prefer to be the writer rather than a participant.
The Loner – Gary Moore (Live)
The quantity of time I spend with my wife has gotten to be extreme. Everything I do now centers around everything she does or needs to do. Every once in awhile, I still get to do something for me to get out of this reality. This blog is part of that. It’s all about me and my time. Me me me! (grin)
Have you examined the quality of the time you spend on the vast quantity of things you consider pleasant, necessary, important or just plain pleasurable? What values do you assign to them?
Skillet Comatose
When it comes to the time you spend with your God, which is more valuable to you, quality or quantity?
Oh, who cares. Look what I can do with my iPhone:
OK, I don’t actually have my iPhone yet, but when I do…(grin)
Ryan specifically called me on my way to work one evening because he forgot to tell me about the new iphone coming out! It must be veeeery important!
But as for the real reason you called, I often complain (key word there!) about how I never have enough time to pay attention to all of the things I feel I “should” be paying attention to – being a good wife, good mom, spending time with God, exercising, cleaning the house, keeping in touch with family and friends, finances. I end up trying to accomplish the things that take the least amount of time first (phone calls, the house), thinking that it will leave more time for the more important things (God, family, friends). I don’t sit still well so I have to FORCE myself (or Ryan “forces” me) to just stop the petty things and go straight to the quality things. Not easy for me, I am still learning…
Jenn
June 11, 2008 at 3:39 pm
[...] interesting – I wrote this post about 3 weeks ago – but my friend Jimmy has a similar post today on his blog. Go check out his thoughts. [...]
Balance « My Beautiful Mess
June 11, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Jenn! Hya! Yep, the iPhone has us geeky types frothing at the mouth. I’m probably gonna have to wait for the 5G iPhone to get mine. (grin)
I think God has a special place in His heart for us whiners. As long as we do our whining to Him. Because if we did all of it to Him, we’d spend an awful lot of time with Him. Oh and I do see the similarities in our posts, except for one major difference. This post was all about me! (big silly grin)
jimmy paravane
June 12, 2008 at 3:51 am