Taking my time
Sep. 26th, 2022 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
millialaniRigid plans never seem to work for me. Whatever ideas I may have for the future I must first take into account our hectic household and my ever present ADHD, which makes it very difficult to schedule things out neatly. I've found it's much more convenient to have a vague list of things that need doing, and tackle them bit by bit as i go. A few things moved here and there before I head off to work, a few things sewn before i lie down to bed, and my work seems to go by faster than if I'd waited to tackle it all as one big project.
I would have thought myself far too impatient to work like this just a few years ago, yet it's taught me that a slow and steady lifestyle suits me. I love the results, but there's a joy in savoring the effort and skill I've put into that journey as well. Now I'm just being far too sentimental, but I'd say it's given me a better appreciation for the work I've done when i look back and remember how i enjoyed the time i spent on it.
To bring up some personal grievances, in a world (especially the online world) that's designed to chug on faster and faster each day and turn our lives into an endless game of catching up, it brings me a lot more peace to say that i won't play that game. It saddens me to see people take a glance at the newest thing to come out and get bored within a week after some newer shinier thing comes out. A life of endless trudging through "content" produced to be "consumed" and spat back out with no appreciation for the work and time that the creators put into it isn't a life I want to live.
I would have thought myself far too impatient to work like this just a few years ago, yet it's taught me that a slow and steady lifestyle suits me. I love the results, but there's a joy in savoring the effort and skill I've put into that journey as well. Now I'm just being far too sentimental, but I'd say it's given me a better appreciation for the work I've done when i look back and remember how i enjoyed the time i spent on it.
To bring up some personal grievances, in a world (especially the online world) that's designed to chug on faster and faster each day and turn our lives into an endless game of catching up, it brings me a lot more peace to say that i won't play that game. It saddens me to see people take a glance at the newest thing to come out and get bored within a week after some newer shinier thing comes out. A life of endless trudging through "content" produced to be "consumed" and spat back out with no appreciation for the work and time that the creators put into it isn't a life I want to live.
