What Day is It

It is strange that they give the kids the entire summer off and then expect adults to just get on with their lives. We now have a whole new set of responsibilities thrust on us and have to figure out how to deal with it. It wouldn’t be good if most of the economy just stopped for the summer, but maybe we should try it every couple years. Everyone gets a summer vacation.

It would also be a little strange because if everyone had a summer vacation then we’d struggle to survive by the end of it. At least for the first couple of times, and then we’d remember to store up food and find activities that don’t rely on other people. It would be a couple months of society detox. As long as we figure out a way to keep the lights on that is.

We could go to parks and the beach, have lots of picnics, go hiking, and spend time with those we want to spend time with. I am sure there are a million downsides and way more I haven’t thought about, but a planned summer society detox would be a good future event. It could become a future event for us. We will have to find out and see.

Right now there is no summer detox. There is only this shortened holiday week inside of a time where time is already compressed by the children being home. I tried to explain how I experience time to someone yesterday and they didn’t seem to understand. Time feels so slow to me. Like nothing is ever moving or happening and I have a desire to make something happen.

This is my worst feature. I want time to move faster and when you push on time it pushes back. The issue is most people are trying to slow time down, not speed it up, and later in life I might wonder why I wanted it to hurry up.

That might be my other worst quality. Setting goals, seeing the path, and wanting to be at the end. It is all laid out before me and all I have to do is get there. The issue is getting there takes one step at a time and once I see an end I don’t want to do the steps as much. I want the results without the work.

Which is where having more money would be helpful. Then I could set up systems all on different time lines and would be able to see results daily. That would be a nice psychological edge. Create a type of distraction for myself while the systems that need to compound can be left along to do so.