FILLING TIME AND SPACE, ADDING AND SUBTRACTING

If you make any effort filling time and space for your own benefit, there are always side effects.

You want to be strong, stay strong, and still fit in your clothes.

You want to be good, look good, and make a difference in your community.

You want things, but they’re hard to reach, hard to get, and hard to hold on to.

With all of the wants and wanting, how do you manage it all and keep up with the basics?

That’s a big question for the Sandwich Generation. You’ve heard of the Sandwich Generation?

Since baby boomers have such a hard time doing anything where they’re not the ground breakers, the trendsetters, the biggest and best, they made a new name for an old thing, namely living in a household with kids on one side and parents on the other with boomer in the middle, hence Sandwich Generation.

Everyone else in the history of mankind lived anonymously with their kids and parents under one roof?

Not anymore, sammich.

 

The Helpful Baby Boomer

The big bugaboo with filling time and space with something meaningful is waiting for the right time.

Today is not the right time to start. Neither is tomorrow.

Yesterday you were too busy with everything to take time for yourself.

Again.

Some days are like that. Some weeks, some months, some years, some decades.

If you haven’t given up on things you want to do in one lifetime, make a plan by adding and subtracting a few things.

You want to be strong? The easy answer is start lifting weights.

It’s also the hard answer. You need to do a few things to avoid injuries, like warm up, lots of warming up.

The same goes with staying strong once you get there. Warm up, lots of warming up.

Why the incessant warming up? Because setbacks, like injuring yourself, can lead to other things, like deciding you don’t need to be strong.

But you do, so warm up real good, big muscle groups, then the small.

 

Make A Difference, A Small Difference

Find someone you can tolerate to play guitars with.

Hopefully they’re tolerant of your limitations.

There may be more songs than 1-4-5 songs, but start there.

The limitations are liking those songs, which most classic rock, folk, and blues are, and digging into them instead of glossing over.

Learn some touch, some control, some speed.

Do that and you’ll get why musicians call it a reflection of life.

The beat of life, the rhythm of life, the walk of life.

 

Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
“Be-Bop-A-Lula”, “Baby What I Say”
Here comes Johnny singing, “I Got a Woman”
Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay
He got the action, he got the motion
Oh, yeah, the boy can play
Dedication, devotion
Turning all the night time into the day

And after all the violence and double talk
There’s just a song in all the trouble and the strife
You do the walk, yeah, you do the walk of life
Hmm, they do the walk of life

 

 

When you hear your song, play it.

If you can’t play it, learn to play it.

It’s your time and your space so do something with it.

 

PS:

 

You have the time.

 

PSS:

If you don’t have the time, find it.

Do the adding and subtracting and you’ll find it.

A little more of this, a little less of that, and there it is.

You won’t be filling time and space, you’ll be filling you.

Will it be Regular, or Premium? Filling, or feeling?