If each of us had a billion years to hang around in, there would be NO blogs exhorting us to live life to the full.
Instead, there’d be blogs about how to waste time. Lots of it. Spend a couple of years just sleeping – why not! Thumb twiddling for experts. Slow drying nail polish.
You wouldn’t have to treasure your dear ones, at least, not until the last hundred years or so. After all, they’re going to be there tomorrow. And the next day. And the next millennium.
Failed love affairs would be like, so what! I’ll probably have forgotten you in another century or two.
Nobody would ever have to feel guilty about not having achieved anything, or having lots of empty buckets in their bucket list. Nobody would say things like ‘live every day as if it’s your last’ and ‘seize the moment’ and ‘opportunity knocks but once’.
What a nice, relaxing world that would be! Sometimes all the pressure (from inside AND outside) to make GOOD USE of this brief life we have, which may be taken off us at any moment, and is ALL WE’VE GOT – is just…tiring!
Come on. BABIES never think about living life to the full. They just…live.
Babies are not just CUTE as buttons, they are brilliant! Honey, this post came at the RIGHT TIME … i’m so sick of slamming myself for not painting masterpieces, and not doing, doing, doing, producing, producing, producing … i could just fall flat on my back …
move over baby, a big-old lady is gonna slam in next to you in that crib. Bring me a diet Mountain Dew while yer at it.
I hope you have lots of nieces and grand-nieces and things then! Yes, babies are a wonder of the world! And Melissa, your paintings ARE masterpieces. If I ever come over there, I want to buy a whole pile of them and hang them all over my house.
Spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur,
fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum
credula postero.
CS
Had to go to the google translate to see what you said.
And you said it very well.
You did? I can see I’m going to have to do that interview with Barbie, but in REAL Aussie.
What’s that about posteriors?
Trust you someone who actually studied Latin, to find a meaning that translate to Bum… CS
Excellent!
thanks! glad you liked it.
I can’t believe I just spent one minute and twenty-eight seconds of my life watching a video about thumb twiddling! I just kept waiting for some really unusual or outstanding thumb twiddling to happen. Surely a person wouldn’t upload a video to youtube about something so banal! In and of itself, it’s an interesting commentary on the way social media shapes us. (It’s time for us to relax and blog about folding laundry and eating cereal for breakfast…)
You WATCHED that video!! Oh dear! Sally – I’m so sorry! But hey, at least you know how to do it properly now.
That baby has the right idea. 😉
Mmm, yes…sleep!!
Only problem is, nothing would ever get done. I know from my point of view that, unless I’m under pressure, I don’t seem to be able to achieve. I think I’d turn into the laziest git on the planet.
But that would be just fine!
Oh, my, a billion years to worry about whether I’ve eaten too much chocolate and ice cream. But then again, a billion years to eat chocolate and ice cream. Yum.
With a billion years, you could even branch out..say, to caramel?
Ooh, chocolate, caramel, and all sorts of nuts and pretzels tossed in. And maybe some marshmallows. 🙂
You’ve got a point.
thanks!
Even when I have the time, I’d rather go out and do…
You’re the energetic type…I’m the sleepy type, really.
Interesting post, bare none.
thank you Tess!
I could so go a nap.
Mmmm…me too!
life will be soooooooooooo boring!
I often think that..but maybe we’re wrong. Maybe it’d just be nice and restful.
i will rather prefer a short one 🙂
will be glad if i scuttle out before half century.