| Thursday, 9-Jul-2009 03:34 |
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Being too busy lately ? Think again!
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Sometimes life just gets too busy. Work, paperwork, meetings, eat, bills, run errands, stuck in traffic jams without the regular exercises and enough sleeps . It just seems to go on and on. Even for those who try to keep their life simple, it doesn't always work. When we are home we seem to keep ourselves too busy, and fall behind on all the things we want to do. Making an hour to just sit with a book or read for the children never seems to happen.
Quite honestly,I think a lot of our time disappears into the Internets. Keeping up with emails, following Facebooks, checking the news, the gossips (and politics), brainstorming ideas for the business that we should get into, following links that follow links... You get the idea. In fairness though, we enjoy it, and we do also find time for other things like cleaning the house, reading newspapers, and watching a little guilty Astro. And also, all that time spent online does keep we up to date with the world, as we seem to just devour all types of media, from blogs to news to real paper publications.
So when your time just seems to disappear and you can't seem to find time for the simple things, what better than a weekend camping in the mountains?
Sure, more than one night would be great, but when you're on a tight schedule, taking 24 hours away from the distractions of home can be a miracle cure. Just last weekend, together with my two kids and wife, I drove out to the Sungai Tekala Recreational Forest, near Semenyih on Saturday afternoon, and returned Sunday afternoon.
Getting away like that worked great. The relaxation factor is much higher than if the same time had been spent at home. There are no temptations from the computer, none from the TV, and best of all there are no bills to look over and no cleaning to be done. Only the most simple tasks need to be tended to; setting up camp and preparing food. And when you drive back into town already you notice how the pace of life is moving too fast.
After a simple night like that spent relaxing -- having barbeques by the fire, sleeping under the stars, and reading a book -- you can return home recharged and feel like you escaped life for just a bit.
Edited by Khalid Ibrahim from an article published in www.idealistcafe.com
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