On Watching Life Just Pass You By..

Something that I have been feeling recently is that I am not doing enough to make the most of the unique opportunity that life is.

This sounds like a bit of a depressing title but for the record it is not. It is just an emotion that occasionally crosses my mind, wishing that perhaps I could do even more than I currently am. I do not think that I am alone in this and it is a feeling that often arises through too much free time or boredom (just 8 hours contact time at University a week!?).


The closest way I can explain it as if you are sat on a train (’life’) and you know what station you want to get off at (’your goal in life’ for example). THe problem is that at every stop you are not there for just 5 minutes, the train is stopped for a full half hour before you get moving again. Once your on the go again everything is fantastic because you know where you are going and what you are doing. But the main issue reminds that immobile half an hour spent at the train stations every so often.


Take right now, a standard Monday night where I have done the work that is required for my lectures and played a football game this evening meaning that I have chosen to stay in the comfort of my own room. This may seem as if everything is fine, and it is, but occasionally that feeling crops up that is telling me that I should be making more use of my time and doing this or that.

It’s annoying because it is not the best thing to feel in the world, but as with all things I hope that this is just a phase and that sooner rather later down the line I will be writing about how little spare time I have and how many things I have going on at the same time!