Finding Koji

Tag: time

  • To play or not to play.

    LEGO® has been a part of my life for many years.

    Back in the day, we didn’t have elaborate sets that we see today; we made our own space ships from our own designs through trial and error, structures that were to last forever, and backdrops for other off-brand action figures.

    It didn’t matter that the colors of the bricks didn’t match or the structures didn’t look like the scenes from the movies we were recreating. Imagination filled those gaps.

    Nowadays, play is the luxury. The value of a piece of LEGO® is dependent on the set it comes from. And a higher value is placed on the set that is never opened and just sits on a shelf untouched.

  • “I have no time.”

    This was originally posted a while back (2023), but since restarting this blog, I thought I would repost it here. It still applies. But at least, today, I am not as busy as I was when I first wrote this.

    It is amazing how often I say this to myself. And it’s probably something I commonly say to others.

    I have no time.

    I have no time to watch television. I have no time to read a book. I have no time to go to a play. My most recent: I have no time to exercise.

    It’s true. If I were to write out a schedule of what I do from the moment I wake up to the second I fall asleep, I seemingly have no time for anything else. I have, somewhere in the past, managed to occupy every hour of my day with some kind of activity that I deemed important enough, and there is no way to fit anything else.

    Until something happens along the way that suddenly creates an uncomfortable moment and throws everything into chaos.

    The plumber needs to come to the apartment because I want the water to stop gushing out of my wall (but they can’t turn off the water until tomorrow because the building only allows the water to be turned off during business hours). Or a pandemic happens and I need to stay home for a month. Or the doctor says I need to start exercising.

    And so I make a change to my routines. It’s inconvenient and frustrating. It becomes fodder for everything that is wrong in life.

    Here’s the punchline: I survive. I get through it. And the world didn’t collapse around me.

    TL;DR: The sudden inconveniences in our lives are opportunities to reflect on what is truly important, and opportunities to make meaningful changes for our happiness.