DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME
Personally, I like Daylight Savings Time. But, every morning, I'm reminded that it's a misnomer. When I get up it's dark. After I've been up a while it's still dark. That sun takes its pretty little time getting up. This is, obviously, not Daylight Savings Time, but, rather, Daylight Postponement Time. I know it's just a technicality, but I feel a need for accuracy.
This is either the idea of the government or a woman...possibly a woman in the government. The government can grow its expenditures by 20% and cut out 3% of its spending and tell us it saved us money, all while the deficit continues to pile up. A woman can find an item she may or may not need, on sale for $10 off, buy five of them and come home after spending $100 she didn't intend to spend and announce to you how proud she is that she was able to save you $50 dollars.
OK, so I've now successfully offended all government workers and all women....my audience is being weeded out rather quickly. That's OK ladies. Your man will counter with the fact that he's only bought one thing for himself in the last 3 years. The fact that it was a $50,000 truck is irrelevant!
(How do I get these places?) Like the Daylight issue, we prefer to postpone rather than save. We prefer to postpone rather than confront. We prefer to postpone rather than recognize. Postponement is preferred to finding real answers, grappling with the issues at hand and finding real solutions. Tomorrow is our mantra. Someday is our creed. When I get around to it is our motto.
Like turning up our clocks and saying, "Look, we made more sunshine!", we have the tendency to assign the important, life-altering, relationship-changing issues to tomorrow. Yet, when tomorrow gets here, it's today...and an excuse to postpone one more time the things that matter most.
Don't just get up in the dark and call it Daylight Savings. Seize today. Start. Start what matters. And leave the minutia of life to tomorrow.
This is either the idea of the government or a woman...possibly a woman in the government. The government can grow its expenditures by 20% and cut out 3% of its spending and tell us it saved us money, all while the deficit continues to pile up. A woman can find an item she may or may not need, on sale for $10 off, buy five of them and come home after spending $100 she didn't intend to spend and announce to you how proud she is that she was able to save you $50 dollars.
OK, so I've now successfully offended all government workers and all women....my audience is being weeded out rather quickly. That's OK ladies. Your man will counter with the fact that he's only bought one thing for himself in the last 3 years. The fact that it was a $50,000 truck is irrelevant!
(How do I get these places?) Like the Daylight issue, we prefer to postpone rather than save. We prefer to postpone rather than confront. We prefer to postpone rather than recognize. Postponement is preferred to finding real answers, grappling with the issues at hand and finding real solutions. Tomorrow is our mantra. Someday is our creed. When I get around to it is our motto.
Like turning up our clocks and saying, "Look, we made more sunshine!", we have the tendency to assign the important, life-altering, relationship-changing issues to tomorrow. Yet, when tomorrow gets here, it's today...and an excuse to postpone one more time the things that matter most.
Don't just get up in the dark and call it Daylight Savings. Seize today. Start. Start what matters. And leave the minutia of life to tomorrow.
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