If you’ve read this blog for a while then you may recall the occasional post I make where I moan about what a drag it can be sometimes to post every day (approaching five full years of consecutive posts now). Sometimes I just don’t have anything I want to say. Other times I have plenty to say but don’t have the time (or sometimes, the inclination) to put pen to paper (or, I guess, fingers to keyboard). Some days I’d just rather be doing something else.
I feel like I’ve been having a bit of a run of those days recently. That’s not to say that there haven’t been any longer posts – there have – but I feel like the frequency of the quick posts where I just fart out a sentence or two and have done with it has been on the rise.
I think this is a symptom of a wider issue I have where I feel I don’t have enough time. And this is true – I don’t. But it’s also true that I waste too much of the time I have doing things that probably don’t matter. Most often, this will be reading stuff online – not articles, features, or long-form pieces, but social media-type lightweight content. It’s like junk food – it’s very tempting, but it’s all empty calories.
Maybe there’s a new-year’s resolution in here. To stop wasting time with the stuff that doesn’t really matter – or at least cut back on it. In that half-hour I spend on Reddit (or wherever) I could have read a couple of chapters of a book, a good feature about something interesting and mentally nourishing, or maybe put together a longer blog post.
Ironically, as is always the case when I post about this stuff, I’ve written a lot more than usual, despite moaning about not having the time to do so.
Olympus OM-1N, G-Zuiko AUTO-W 28mm f/3.5 & Ilford FP4+. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 @ 20° 10mins.
Taken 14 October 2023.
Steel City Snapper photography 
Being retired means I have time to arrange time to arrange my time, for the most part, how I want to. Other times, no. Working, time was even more precious and less squandered. I think it is human nature to never have enough time, but perhaps that is the point – and then to treasure each moment as best we can (even when it may be not something we wish to experience again!).
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Thanks. I agree, trying to avoid wasted time and to make the most of what we have is a wise choice.
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I can testify from my experience that even being retired and having almost unlimited time can still result in procrastination and lack of action. When you don’t need to do something within a limited time scale it is tempting to keep putting things off.
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I can well imagine that being the case. My greatest bugbear is that, when the conditions are great and I want to go make pictures, I can’t because I’m at work of have other commitments (which are never dependant on good light…). When I do have free time I’m either not feeling inspired or (mostly) the conditions are unsatisfactory. Living in the UK, drab overcast days are a fact of life a lot of the time, so I try to embrace them as best I can. I’m not always successful though…
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