DanLeCrinque
Shared on Wed, 03/08/2006 - 08:15You cannot even begin to imagine what needs to be put on hold for I to be writing these lines. Can you pinpoint the exact moment when your free time was taken from you? Do we spend 20 years on a school bench to be told what to do and when to do it? What’s left to be spent on leisure, doing things I like? Simply finding the time to write an email to a person I care about is an exercise worthy of mention. Carl Sanburg said it best: Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it on you. Those other people control you, holding what you need dearly. But who am I to complain when I have friends lacking employment. Luck as struck my household and enables us to live. Wasn’t it Emily Dickinson who once said: To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else?
On a side note, I’ve met this week with my American equivalent. Rick aka Sunburned Goose is in town for business. My first reflex when I travel somewhere is to look up whoever from 2old2play lives in the area. He also thinks like that. How refreshing it was to discuss about everything and nothing. We were saying that we have sometimes more in common with each other, and we have more contacts with our virtual friends than with our real life friends. It was also great to actually have a divergence of opinion about culture and tradition in the US. The obvious quote here would be "It does help to walk in a mans shoes before judging them" however, I can see where he comes from and I think I understand how he feels about things. Societies are built on debates and ideas. Who am I to say that I hold the absolute truth. One great individual this Rick, if ever you get the opportunity, look him up. We’ll both be in Chicago for the LAN party, by the way.
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