One of these days...

We come and go. Busy in our days full of things that "need" to be done. We create a little space for ourselves and, soon enough, someone comes algong and fills it with some unsolicited task. Depending on who, we may even appreciate it, even with the loss of our space. Alas, someone needs us...

So we postpone that task, that project, that something we were going to do, for another moment.

Sometimes it doesn't even need another person's interaction to postpone things. That wardrobe that needs reorganizing. That room that needs sorting out. To place that carpet we have tucked away. Changing the clothes. Try to bring some logic to our library! Oofff... But life likes to throw spanners in our cogs and to design tangents to our roads. One day they need you a little more at work, the train is late, the weather conspires against you... and you get home and you really don't feel like attending those things you had set out to do today. Better do it on another of these days...

We have all received those pretty "carpe diem" powerpoints reinforced with the experiences of someone who's been on the brink of death. But in all truth, Carpe Diem is a hard motto to follow in the real world. We all have things we want to do and life sets out to deny them. In the wise words of John Lennon (I think) "Life is what happens while you're busy making plans".

But when one only has to answer to oneself, those failures, those delays seem less important. In the end, whatever you don't do today... you can do some other time. The importance seems to be acquired with someone's dissapointment. Thus we are one day faced with the thought "One of these days I gotta call X and see how he/she is doing...". We may even plan the call that evening. Doubtlessly, life will throw something at that one, too.

Someone (who deserves more importance than a simple "someone" expresses) recently took it upon themselves to remind me, also, that we can't lay all the blame on life.

Sometimes we are centered on the immediate, the easy, things or people that give us directly good moments. All that, in some manner or other, leaves us with a footprint in our lives is, in a sense, complex.

If you pay close attention, the footprints in life are the creases in our skin, more or less indeleble marks (funtionally directly proportional to the amount of botox used). Folds that don't hurt but, sometimes, when we see ourselves in the mirror, make us think.

Maybe that's why we leave what we can really say or do for "one of these days...". We wait for that day in which all will be easier, in which we will feel like talking about outselves or return to the past (with its fairies and its devils)

Thank you for the reminder. To my new set of intentions I add the one about not hiding from those who make me feel exposed (someone, again, someone who deserves much more importance than a simple "someone", also reminded me of the advantages of leaving yorself exposed; those who are trustworthy will make good use of it), call now instead of later, do today if I can. This year, not "some day".

So, what have you got planned for "one of these days"?