My Space

Sometimes I just want to tell the whole world... "My space is 'my' space; it is not 'your' space. Please don't invade it unless I invite you to." Does this make me a non-hospitable and unfriendly person? Don't get me wrong... I love people, and I love being with people. But I also love being with myself. Sometimes I think we all just need to do that. Even Jesus, who was always surrounded by those he loved, routinely went away by himself. That's good enough for me; you know what they say ... WWJD. So, call me a hermit, or a snob, or just plain weird. That's fine with me - because I know that when I occasionally just get away, even if it is only in my head, I can then come back and be a better "me" for you to be around. In this crazy and too busy world... solitude is healthy; it is pleasurable; it is a gift from God. Thank you, God.

I wonder if I am a procrastinator... I'll think about that tomorrow!

Well, I came to the computer to blog about an entirely different subject, but when I saw the date of my last, and only, post... I just had to laugh. This is so typical of me... so many intentions; so little time. Yes I am a procrastinator. In fact I am the queen of procrastinators. I would not be surprised if procrastination did not even exist until I was born and then God had to invent it to give me a place to belong in this world. In school I waited until the "very" last minute to study for tests. My friends wondered how I always managed to squeak out a decent grade. It was easy... I only had to remember the material for a few hours, from the time I started studying until the test was over. And sometimes that was actually only a few minutes. I cringe when I think back on it now. I hope my daughter who is in college "procrastinates" reading this post until she has graduated! She procrastinated starting college. Her friends graduated college before she started. I just hope she doesn't become one of those "professional" students who procrastinate graduating until she starts looking like the other students' mothers. I had a friend like that from high school. Every few years after we went our separate ways, I would run into her or someone who knew her and the "hey, what are you doing these days?" update was always the same for years and years... just going to school. Years later, someone told me they saw her in the kindergarten class at my neice's school. My first thought was, "oh no... she went to school until there were no more classes left to take and she had to start going backwards and ended up back in kindergarten!" Thankfully, my second thought was correct... she became a kindergarten teacher. Seriously, no offense intended toward older students. I totally admire them.