That it is so easy to make plans for yourself, but never keep them?
I decided it has been a while since I have written a blog really worth reading. I guess there just hasn't been very much excitement in my life lately. So I thought about it today, and decided I will write about something that I have been thinking about lately. So here it goes...
I find it interesting that if we make plans with a friend, or with our wife/husband, but don't fallow through we fell bad. But if we tell ourselves we are going to do something, but never do it, we don't really think anything of it. This may be confusing, so I will try to explain better. I find myself making "promises" to myself, if you want to call them that, but rarely fallowing through. Example, I regularly tell myself, next time I have some time to kill, instead of playing video games, I should play my guitar. Or string my 12 string that I really haven't even played because the strings have been sitting on my desk in the box ever since I got it, like a month ago! But if I were to tell Nicole that I was going to take her our to ice cream tonight, but went home and played video games instead, it just wouldn't fly! With me or her!
I don't really know where this all is coming from, it is just something that bothers me about myself. I spend so much time watching T.V. a week that if I did something worth while, like learning new graphics design techniques in photoshop, or like I said, playing my guitar. Who know, I could even learn how to play the piano again. What I would LOVE to do, have everything I need to do, but just won't take the time to do.
Sorry, feels kinda like a rant! Just a psychological question that I thought some of you MIGHT be able to relate to? That's it for now.
Why is it?
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Posted by Tyler Reitz at 8:28 AM
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I wish that I could make myself feel as guilty as Emily (or pretty much anyone else) does when I let her down. I think the problem is that we know what motivates ourselves and are able to weigh that playing video games will give you just much if not more thrill than stringing your guitar. But with someone else, you don't know what that something is...I'm sure that if I promised Emily that I would take her on a walk and instead I said "lets go out for ice cream" she would overlook me letting down the first promise. Just my thoughts on the issue...I do wish I had more self guilt lol.
I hear ya, I feel the same way about it. Beats me why we do it.
Oh ya! Trading a walk for ice cream would most definitely fly! And I see where you are going with that. We allow ourselves to do what sounds more enjoyable at the time. Instead of what might be time better spent. Good point.
I tend to feel quite a large amount of guilt over not following through on plans I have made for myself. Not as much as if I were to let someone else down but still a significant amount. Must be a personality thing.
I do find that the self guilt is easier to deal with as it is just between me and God rather than me, God and another person.
But overall, I believe, that its pretty common for us to not follow through on things that we know we ought to.
Romans 7:15
"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do."
Luckily, we have the God to help us through it. He's cool like that.
Well put Shelley.
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