Walking for distance has demonstrated a great many benefits for me, but it certainly not been the magic bullet solution to all of the challenges in front of me. It has given me a reasonable (from my perspective anyway) a relatively healthy way of dealing with those challenges.
I am currently involved in an ongoing dispute with my roommates regarding the level of appreciation that we demonstrate to each other for our collective contributions to managing the household. My ego is probably creating some of these problems, but I don't think I'm 100% responsible for the difference in opinion. Anyway, thanks to this dispute, I've made a decision to pull back from some of the more collectively beneficial activities (from my perspective anyway) and just start keeping my "own side of the street clean" and not a whole lot else. The trigger that launched me on this course of action was having one of my roommates ask me what it was I thought I should be getting credit for accomplishing. Having been in one of these conversations before, I believed at the time it was a futile effort to attempt to answer that question, so I decided that if whatever it was I thought I was doing did not add value to the extent that another adult felt it necessary to ask me to justify those activities, I'd just stop doing them.
It turns out that whatever it was I was "not doing" seems to have been taking up a whole lot of time. Just this evening, I managed to get in an extra 40 minutes of work, an additional mile of walking, and I'll probably get to bed about 30 minutes earlier. I suspect I can trade the 40 minutes of work tomorrow for something that is of even greater value to me personally. Part of this recovered time allowed me to jog down to the west lawn of the Capitol Building and observe the aftermath of the Capitol Hill Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
I'd been warned earlier in the day that this event was taking place, but by the time we arrived the tree had been lit, the crowds were dispersing, the checkpoints had been shutdown, and only the Christmas music and lighted tree remained as a reminder of the recent hullabaloo. I feel pretty good about what I was able to accomplish today with my newly found time.
I am currently involved in an ongoing dispute with my roommates regarding the level of appreciation that we demonstrate to each other for our collective contributions to managing the household. My ego is probably creating some of these problems, but I don't think I'm 100% responsible for the difference in opinion. Anyway, thanks to this dispute, I've made a decision to pull back from some of the more collectively beneficial activities (from my perspective anyway) and just start keeping my "own side of the street clean" and not a whole lot else. The trigger that launched me on this course of action was having one of my roommates ask me what it was I thought I should be getting credit for accomplishing. Having been in one of these conversations before, I believed at the time it was a futile effort to attempt to answer that question, so I decided that if whatever it was I thought I was doing did not add value to the extent that another adult felt it necessary to ask me to justify those activities, I'd just stop doing them.
It turns out that whatever it was I was "not doing" seems to have been taking up a whole lot of time. Just this evening, I managed to get in an extra 40 minutes of work, an additional mile of walking, and I'll probably get to bed about 30 minutes earlier. I suspect I can trade the 40 minutes of work tomorrow for something that is of even greater value to me personally. Part of this recovered time allowed me to jog down to the west lawn of the Capitol Building and observe the aftermath of the Capitol Hill Christmas Tree lighting ceremony.
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| Capitol Hill Christmas Tree - Day 1, 2015 |
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