"On Wasting Time"

Someone must know the answer to this question?

"Why does my grandson think that he has all day and then some, just to get from the car to the arena?

Does he not know that we have to get inside so that we can start skating? No, instead he wants to lollygag all the way there, wasting time checking out pretty rocks and patches of ice and every other distraction that intrigues him. Does he not know that while he's having fun, that we're not doing what we're supposed to be doing? Does he not realize that every second is so priceless it can't be wasted on any frivolous thing that happens to distract him? How does he expect to get ahead in life if he doesn't concentrate on the important stuff?

Of course that's not the real question is it?

It just occurs to me however that if I simply asked Colby the first question, his answer may also saitsfy the second. I hope that's not too cryptic for you. Sometimes my brain functions in mysterious ways.

"We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves."---Alice Bloch

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."---Emily Dickinson

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peter