Perspective smack down

Every now and then, something smacks you with a little reality check. A little something the dictionary likes to call perspective.

This morning, having come from a 70 hour working week, working on Saturday and an all nighter on Monday, I started flicking through the photos of a friend who was in the second week in of her year long trip around the world. At this point I was feeling both jealous and resentful. I'm pretty sure I did some out loud sighs too. Then I read an email about this guy who I knew from Adelaide had died from cancer. He wasn't a friend, just someone I knew years ago, but still, for anyone to die before their time, and especially at 27 is so unfair.

We all know about seizing the day and living everyday like it's your last. But this isn't realistic. You can't be afraid of death. You can't go and sky dive everyday or tell your boss to go fuck themselves. While you can embrace life to the best of your ability, fun needs to be funded. So, of course, you need to find a balance. Doing nothing but work all week definitely isn't. It's easy to get wrapped up in life, in work and ourselves. However, it's easy to make sure you do fun things and don't waste your life in front of the TV or something else just as time wasting. But like anything, it's about making an effort. But not the fake smile kind of effort, more like the effort that makes you think after, man, I'm so glad I did that.

So get out, take a walk, see a friend you haven't seen in a while, draw something, bake a cake, pick up the phone, plan a holiday, do something, anything, whatever the effort, it'll be worth it.

Sorry if this was really preachy.

Amen.