Craft Wednesday #18 Given Enough Time

This blog needed a place for talking about writing. "Craft Wednesday" will be me talking about all things writing: how to write, why to write, and my own craft journey. I hope to learn and to share experiences with you.  

Given Enough Time

      I haven't written new stories or poems in my notebook for about two weeks. I've been busy, or at least that's what I've been telling myself. 

     A complaint common to a modern (hu)man is being too busy; another excuse is not having enough time. Busyness can be solved by not being as busy. 

    As for not having enough time, well, everyone has the same amount of time -- not life expectancy, but the same short-term time. Cultures split up months differently, but our planet's complete orbit around the sun is what we call one year, and each rotation of the Earth is one day. Everyone must make do with twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. 

     Every Einstein, Pope, Churchill, Tesla, Socrates, Hitler, Khan, Great -- every servant, slave, parent, child, middle-manager -- every person has the same amount of time in a day. 

     Perhaps we choose to fill our time differently. Perhaps some of these hours are filled for us. How these hours are filled is often the first  the world sees of us. Make these hours count.

   As a wizard once told a hobbit, "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

*In moderation, books are a good way of spending time. For more wizard quotes, try J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, which is the original venture into Middle Earth.