Gone in 60 seconds
posted: Nov 3, 05:03 PM
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else”
Emily Dickinson
Time…there’s never enough of it when you’re trying to get something accomplished. You know, the proverbial time crunch. The flip side to this is when you’re in the middle of something you would like to leave as soon as humanly possible but time just crawls by.
I remember being a little girl and having to wait 15 or 20 minutes for something I wanted. This now short period of time went by like a tortoise proving slow and steady wins the race. Summer vacation stretched out with limitless possiblities, the next school year so far away it almost looked fun. Christmas Eve went on forever. I wondered if Santa would EVER get to my house.
The subject of time popped into my head when I realised I have only four more nights left in my current curriculum studies credit. This reminded me of the luxurious feeling I can look forward to through December. I won’t have to leave work and struggle through rush hour traffic to university. There will be no readings or papers waiting impatiently for my attention. I won’t constantly have a large project and/or paper and the associated juggling of my schedule, the techy guy’s schedule, my daughter’s schedule all to arrange to meet with classmates when the need to “do group work” is unavoidable, all lurking in my planner.
This will be my Christmas present this year. The joy of guilt free laziness.
I got lucky though. I know many women who have made the same commitment to furthering their education as I have, but they are doing it on their own. They may not have a supportive partner.
I have great admiration for the women out there who manage to combine family, work and education without a supportive partner.
Life is challenging under even the best of circumstances, it’s harder with less than ideal circumstances.