Wednesday, August 22, 2007
fix it or forget it?
i've always been late. i was born 2 weeks late, and it's been downhill from there. my senior year of high school, my dad taught seminary in our living room and i would walk in late - still in my pj's. i was only on time for my wedding because i woke up at 4 a.m. and couldn't get back to sleep. my parents are very polite about it, but will tell me it takes 20 minutes to get to their chapel when, in reality, it only takes 10 in the hopes that i will get to church on time when we visit. i think i'm supposed to be embarassed by my perpetual lateness and make a resolution to do something about it, but i have way too many things already on the "to be fixed" plate to add something that just seems to be a part of me. i'm afraid to pray for help on this because i don't want Heavenly Father to send me some kind of awful experience to teach me to be on time. i mean, life itself is already enough of a refiner's fire without me asking Him to turn up the heat. i do want to eventually be a punctual person, but first i want to be a patient person, a charitable person, a humble person, a budgeted person.... :)
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You know, I always go with the easiest thing to fix first. Then I feel like I've accomplished something, I have success. Then it's easier to "fix" the big ones that seems like they will never get fixed. At least puncutality is a measurable thing. Each time you're on time, it's something definite that you can say, "I did it." It's the charitable, forgiving, more subjective ones that I have a hard time with.
Is it subjective or objective? I'm getting confused.
i never thought of it that way - thanks, kei. :) -bess
Subjective interpretation means there are different ways of looking at things (which I think is what you are after - with an objective measure, everyone is supposed to interpret it the same way) -James-
hey! you're in the right family bess!
i do recall mom breaking the speed limit down naniloa loop to get to volleyball games and then shoving us out the door of the car and making us run all the way upstairs and then down again at the cac to let her in the back seconds before the first serve. lol. :)
yep - definitely right family. i haven't even considered that it's something that should go on my fix it plate. now you have me thinking that maybe i need to... :)
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