Slow Movement

It is officially a new week, which means I can allow myself a new post!  Although the week was uneventful, the weekend turned out to be exactly the opposite.  Success.  I have survived yet another weekend and gained some insight as well.  When you are a single college student your weekends consist of sleeping till one, watching movies all day, eating, and then getting ready to hit the bar scene.  If you have a successful night it usually means you can't remember most of it, and it involved a heavy flow of liquid courage. If you happened to be one of the few in a relationship, you usually spend all your free time with a significant other soaking up the little time you have to be together.  It always goes like this: When you are seeing someone, suddenly all the free time you had is consumed, but not only by another person.  Work becomes excessive, and even school assignments and tests start to build up.  Of course you can't forget seeing your family and friends, so you pretty much are on a constant track never stopping for a second.

Now your the single college student.  You have been on the go for as long as you can remember, never stopping to take a breath and now all you can find yourself doing is absolutely nothing.  Work goes by dreadfully slow and the assignments you were once swimming in have all at once disappeared.  Why is it that when we don't want to have endless amounts of free time, we have it and vice versa?  We can never have it the way we want it, no matter what the situation is.  If I want the red bag, they only have the black, or I have a wedding to attend and the only weekend I am scheduled to work is that weekend?

Life throws barriers in our way to see how strong we are to overcome them.  When we have loads of free time on our hands all we can do is sit and think.  We reminisce on our lives, the good times, but usually the bad because we dwell on what went wrong, and then we try to replay the situations in our head if we could have done it differently.   How do we overcome our own barriers?