time

Time is a scary thing to think about. I still feel new to this campus, yet in a few months I'll be a junior at Northwestern. It's not that I'm not adjusted to living at college, it's just whenever I come back from a break and go from Midway all the way back to Bobb, it still feels like a journey to somewhere. Sort of like the movie 50 First Dates....except with a campus, if that makes any sense at all. Coming back after summer break was odd because I felt like a new student...who knew where everything was, almost as if I had been to the campus in a previous dream.

Anyway, I'm totally off topic from what I originally wanted to talk about.

Time, and how one spends it. Your values show through how you manage your time. I can say with my words that I value something, say I love playing violin, but if I don't put any time into, my words don't mean anything. To say that you don't have enough time only means, you're spending too much time on something that you don't value as much as the time you spent on in seems to imply.

Isn't that true? Most of us probably sleep around 6 hours a night, leaving 18 hours a day. EIGHTEEN HOURS. Maybe four of those ours are due to class, which necessary as we are college students, but how many of those hours are we on Facebook (...youtube, tumblr, etc)? Much more than I'd like to admit, but I'm sure as hell if I wrote down my list of of values, Youtube videos would not be on top or probably even on that list. My time invested says otherwise though.

"The only thing worse than a man who doesn't know what he values is one that lies about it too."

Now. That isn't to say we all suck and value Facebook above our parents. I love my parents, don't get me wrong, but I definitely don't spend enough time calling and talking to them. There's a difference between deceiving yourself of your values and wanting a certain set of values. Deceiving is making false claims while wanting is setting a goal. The desire to talk to my parents and get to know them more is a goal. The claim that I love playing violin? You might believe me if I can sell it enough. I'm afraid I'm the only who can tell the difference between my own goals and false claims.

But it's definitely important to know what you value, for your own benefit and for others. To be able to see what you want (to get to know a certain person better, to sharpen a certain skill) and to know how well you are doing in achieving that goal, and to see if there are areas that you're spending too much time in a certain area that you don't value at all (say, sleep or your major).

Time management is the name of the game. So what exactly do I value..