ask yourself, a card I designed
One of the things you'll find out about me is that I'm very flighty.
I'll find something that captures my attention and it'll totally absorb me for a while. It can be a subject or culture, a software program, anything really.
I just have this desire for new shiny things in my life. Maybe I'm part magpie, I don't know.
If it's something I can learn more about without it costing me a penny, I love it all the more. No guilt about how much of a dent it made in my bank account, yippee!
See, I know my nature and the inevitability that one morning I'll wake up, lose interest in whatever is flavor of the month with me and move on to pastures new. As I said, I'm flighty.
This card above is a good example of that. I created it from scratch with a free program called Paint.net. I love the program and it's one of the few things I've hung on to for any length of time.
Last summer I made a series of these cards, patted myself on the back for a job well done for a beginner, uploaded them online and promptly forgot them until I was looking through old pictures on my computer yesterday. Now, I know I'm no Dali (more like Daffy) but I liked them! That was enough for me.
Too often we try to do things to please everyone but ourselves. I took pleasure in the creation of this and figuring out the program. It was a fun distraction and still is. When I tire of it someday, I'll find something else. Personally I don't think anything keep life more interesting than continuing to seek out newness and being open to learning about it. That's fun to me.
Unfortunately I'm like most people in that the busier we get, the less "me" time for the lighter, fun side of life we have. The irony is that's when we need it most of all. I'd have loved to have used this program a lot more than I have in the last nine months just for the fun of it.
So how about making yourself a promise that you'll fit in some "me" time tomorrow. Even if it's only half an hour and you have to lock yourself in the bathroom with a book tucked under your arm complaining of some phantom bellyache to get it. Desperate times call for desperate measures! For your own wellbeing, be good to yourself even for a little while and relax a little.
I'm going to try, so why don't you too? Let's give it a go. Do one thing tomorrow you enjoy just for the sake of it, then come back and share what it was with me. It may even be habit-forming.
