Time and Space

Something we often think about, there is never enough time and we could always use more space. If you listen to enough radio, watch television or read the papers someone is always telling us that lifestyle is an important part of life's menu. It used to be all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, now it is work life balance! How do we fit it all in family and all that goes with it, work and of course exercise, which they say we should do for thirty minutes a day. Then we also have to have enough sleep to ensure our body can do all we ask of it. Just thinking about it makes me want to have a Bex and a good lie down.

Really, what do we do with our time? How many of us get home from work, grab a drink and flop into our favorite chair, hoping that the kitchen and house fairies had whipped up dinner and cleaned the house, of course they hadn't. So we down the drink and  muster up enough courage to throw ourselves into the evenings drudgery, then it is all over dinner check, laundry check, cleaning check another drink check. Should we have exercised yes, but it is too late now might as well go to bed.

Some days it seems like we get up go to work, come home, eat, go to bed, then get up for work again. how do we break this mournful cycle do we actually want to? Of course, something has to give or we will be dead before we retire and bugger me, I have not worked for forty years to drop dead before I get the chance to travel and swan around while my children work.

Children who think a four by two house is just excessive, why do we need three televisions anyway and why on earth do you need such a big car when you are on your own in it most of the time, answer because we can and because we paid for them. Why do we have to have all this junk everywhere, it is not junk I remind them it adds character to our home it is sentimental and family history. I know we have much clutter and could probably get rid a many things, however, it  all fits into the space I own and very much appreciate, space which I earned. Space unfortunately that may very well not be available to our children.