Day 25
April 29, 2016
Welcome to the final days of the 2016 A to Z Blogging
Challenge! This is the SIXTH year I’ve participated in the challenge - and yes,
I will complete it on time. Which is a good thing since I’ve been writing about
time. Thanks for stopping by Between the Keys as part of the 2016 A to Z
Blogging Challenge.
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I’ve been blathering about my time for the entire challenge
month and if I’ve learned one thing it’s that while I do respect time, I also
waste a fair amount of it. Coming down to the next to the last day of the
challenge I think some of the blogs were a waste of time this year. Maybe I
didn’t spend enough time thinking about setting time as my theme. Maybe if I do
the challenge again next year I’ll say to heck with a theme. A theme can really
be tiresome.
If it’s true we only have 960 waking minutes a day, then how
much time does each writer need to take for himself or herself each day?
Writing is a time-intensive pursuit. Too often I forget to step back and take
time to relax. It needs to be scheduled and prioritized as part of an
uncluttered calendar to be guilt free, but it’s some of the most important time
I have.
In January of this year, my mother was diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s. Yeah, we saw it coming but I still hated like hell to hear that
word applied to her. Spending more time with her takes time away from other
pursuits, such as writing.
So what is my time worth? What is your time worth? Life is
certainly a balancing act. One day the job comes first. Another day family. I’m
not sure I’ll be up to the task each and every day. But there’s one thing I
will remember and that’s to take time for myself when I need it even though I
doubt the people around me will like it much.
KC Kendricks
www.kckendricks.com
www.twitter.com/kckendricks
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