Here be (boring) dragons

It's more of a showerthought than a blog post, but here it is. Let's talk about the gentle wolf and the angry wolf. Because there are two wolves inside of us and...

...well you know.

Sometimes I wonder about how we, as a kind, went too far up on the self-esteem ladder. We put ourselves in the middle of the universe and everything around us is something we should put to use, and if we can't, then it's bound to be useless.

Woa, let that sink in for a moment. I'm not going down this road and make it all about us, but instead, I'll write about time. Just like we did with every other thing, time followed the same binary process: time well spent, wasted time. Given that time is linear and only moving forward, maybe the binary separation is right, maybe it's not.

Because, and again I wonder, where we draw the line between the time well spent and the wasted time? This is exclusively personal, although we may or may not be subject to different global trends. The one that makes my gears grind (cue to What really grind my gears by Peter Griffin) is generally considering time well spent the time in which we are at the center of our actions/thoughts.

The famous “me” time.

Mind this, spending “you” time is absolutely ok and to be fair, it's a good practice, so please do, it will help your mental health a great deal.

What isn't really a good practice tho, is accompanying this “me” time with the whole I'm-in-the-middle-of-the-universe concept. But, but, but, the “me” time should be about me! someone would scream in terror. And I'd answer that yes, it should be about you, but not you against everyone else. And if you got the gist of the post, that someone is an angry wolf howling about how he's at the center of his own universe and his time is sacred.

There's a certain grace in spending your “me” time being gentle towards others, may those be an animal, a plant, another person. Being a gentle wolf. Help someone else, just gave them a smile, a pat on the back. It's a simple gesture but you don't know what will do and how will change your life or the other (like, ever heard of the Butterfly effect ?).

I personally consider “me” time even using social media, because I get to talk about my interests, videogames, trekkin, chatting with amazing people and generally learning something knew every day. And my gentle wolf heart is shattered, seeing that most of the time the current trend is about weaving a digital pitchfork against others, snarling and clawing at everything, like a pack of angry wolves.

I'm no guru and I'm no smart man, but if you'd like to try something else and see how it goes, remember that

In a world where you can be anything, be kind

#ShowerThoughts #Time #BeGentle

The journey into the adult life is basically moving on uncharted areas of the map. And there, there be dragons.

Alex