Pitter Patter goes the Heart.
Haven't been able to sleep in on weekends anymore because my internal clock wakes up at 7am automatically. I'm not amused with my internal clock.
Read the papers this morning over breakfast and have not done that in a very long time. Wish I did this more often and I sometimes regret rushing through the weeks. This is the first weekend in months since I've had a morning to myself without having to go somewhere or run an errand.
Life has been very good. I'm a bit more materialistic than I use to be. I'll admit that because I've spent more time and resources in this area. I use to make fun of these people and now realize I may have just become one of them.
On the flip side, I'm also careful about it because once you move forward a step, it seems difficult to take a step back. You get use to a certain lifestyle - what I call the trappings of success? I think C. Wright Mills called it emulative consumption. I can't be quite sure what it is.
An interesting quote:
"If white-collar people are not free to control their working actions they, in time, habitually submit to the orders of others and, in so far as they try to act freely, do so in other spheres.....If there is a split between their work and play, and their work and culture, they admit that split as a common-sense fact of existence. If their way of earning a living does not infuse their mode of living, they try to build their real life outside their work. Work becomes a sacrifice of time, necessary to building a life outside of it."
Read the papers this morning over breakfast and have not done that in a very long time. Wish I did this more often and I sometimes regret rushing through the weeks. This is the first weekend in months since I've had a morning to myself without having to go somewhere or run an errand.
Life has been very good. I'm a bit more materialistic than I use to be. I'll admit that because I've spent more time and resources in this area. I use to make fun of these people and now realize I may have just become one of them.
On the flip side, I'm also careful about it because once you move forward a step, it seems difficult to take a step back. You get use to a certain lifestyle - what I call the trappings of success? I think C. Wright Mills called it emulative consumption. I can't be quite sure what it is.
An interesting quote:
"If white-collar people are not free to control their working actions they, in time, habitually submit to the orders of others and, in so far as they try to act freely, do so in other spheres.....If there is a split between their work and play, and their work and culture, they admit that split as a common-sense fact of existence. If their way of earning a living does not infuse their mode of living, they try to build their real life outside their work. Work becomes a sacrifice of time, necessary to building a life outside of it."