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How many of you scrolled down to see how long this post was?
Can't be bothered to read something if it's over a certain length?
Have you got some place else to be, or something else to do?
Would reading this be a waste of your time?
Just how much time have you got?
Do you want to read a few posts before you stop to watch a specific program on the television later? Or do you have nothing else to do, and you're just going to keep on reading posts, reply to messages until you're bored, then find something else to do?
For the last few years I don't feel that I've had enough time. I've had the same amount as everybody else though, surely. My days last 24 hours just like yours, 1440 minutes just like yours, 86400 seconds, just like yours. Am I just selfish to want more?
Or is the problem that I'm not doing the right things with the time I have, and am blaming something I have no control over for it?
Right now, is writing this a good use of of my time?
Quick answer, yes, I feel I need to write it down, as it will help me to see it the way I want to, help me to get over another one of those stumbling blocks that happens to fall into my way.
Alternative answer, and indeed the only alternative to yes, would be no. If I check the forums later, and see that I have no or just a few replies, then I'll feel it was a waste of my time. Even though it's something I'm trying to get clear in my head, I still need you to recognise it in some way.
Yes that's right, I need you, I still need you, as much as I ever did.
Since these forums were cruelly taken from me by my evil employers things haven't been the same. I mean, I can understand them doing it, I'm paid to work, not spend all day on the forums, writing, reading, enjoying myself.
So these 8 hours, they used to be the main time I spent here, and I felt part of something special. Now I have plenty of work to do in those 8 hours, (not always my employers...) but things have changed so drastically here, that it will never be the same again, and I can't get it back.
It really does upset me when I get no, or few replies to a post. I think it means nobody read it. A hit-counter on each thread would make my day, week, month, as I would then no for sure whether you people were reading or not.
Which comes back to time.
I want to know if I'm wasting my time, writing as I do.
Things I write on these forums tend to be ideas, things I'd like to develop, but then if nobody has anything to say about them, I figure that they must not be any good.
Why should I care what a bunch of people on a forum think?
Feedback.
It's so much better than sending out letters, waiting for a reply that's a simple yes or not.
"Good post Meka!"
That gives me confidence, empowers me. Sad isn't it?
Without these forums I would never have even believed that I could write anything. So I haven't got anywhere so far, but i have the confidence to try.
All because I was 'wasting' my time on the forums.
If I do get anywhere with this, I wonder if I'll still feel like I never have enough time.
Can't be bothered to read something if it's over a certain length?
Have you got some place else to be, or something else to do?
Would reading this be a waste of your time?
Just how much time have you got?
Do you want to read a few posts before you stop to watch a specific program on the television later? Or do you have nothing else to do, and you're just going to keep on reading posts, reply to messages until you're bored, then find something else to do?
For the last few years I don't feel that I've had enough time. I've had the same amount as everybody else though, surely. My days last 24 hours just like yours, 1440 minutes just like yours, 86400 seconds, just like yours. Am I just selfish to want more?
Or is the problem that I'm not doing the right things with the time I have, and am blaming something I have no control over for it?
Right now, is writing this a good use of of my time?
Quick answer, yes, I feel I need to write it down, as it will help me to see it the way I want to, help me to get over another one of those stumbling blocks that happens to fall into my way.
Alternative answer, and indeed the only alternative to yes, would be no. If I check the forums later, and see that I have no or just a few replies, then I'll feel it was a waste of my time. Even though it's something I'm trying to get clear in my head, I still need you to recognise it in some way.
Yes that's right, I need you, I still need you, as much as I ever did.
Since these forums were cruelly taken from me by my evil employers things haven't been the same. I mean, I can understand them doing it, I'm paid to work, not spend all day on the forums, writing, reading, enjoying myself.
So these 8 hours, they used to be the main time I spent here, and I felt part of something special. Now I have plenty of work to do in those 8 hours, (not always my employers...) but things have changed so drastically here, that it will never be the same again, and I can't get it back.
It really does upset me when I get no, or few replies to a post. I think it means nobody read it. A hit-counter on each thread would make my day, week, month, as I would then no for sure whether you people were reading or not.
Which comes back to time.
I want to know if I'm wasting my time, writing as I do.
Things I write on these forums tend to be ideas, things I'd like to develop, but then if nobody has anything to say about them, I figure that they must not be any good.
Why should I care what a bunch of people on a forum think?
Feedback.
It's so much better than sending out letters, waiting for a reply that's a simple yes or not.
"Good post Meka!"
That gives me confidence, empowers me. Sad isn't it?
Without these forums I would never have even believed that I could write anything. So I haven't got anywhere so far, but i have the confidence to try.
All because I was 'wasting' my time on the forums.
If I do get anywhere with this, I wonder if I'll still feel like I never have enough time.
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On the forums these days, I rarely post, out of part self-consciousness and can't think what to writeness. I HATE it when there are no replies to my posts. Means I don't know who read it or what they thought of it.
People are lazy, reading takes time, energy; is it really worth it?
Time - Pink Floyd
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
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:0) Nice post Meka. It's difficult to come on when most of the action takes place during the day... it's much nicer to be able to talk to people when they're actually here...
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
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:0) Nice post Meka. It's difficult to come on when most of the action takes place during the day... it's much nicer to be able to talk to people when they're actually here...
I usually accept lengthy posts if they're on a subject that warrants it. If the subject seems interesting or I want to read it for other reasons, I will. However, huge posts on stuff like how West Ham are teh doomed seem stupid to me. And while I appreciate AliBoy and Light's good punctuation and spelling, their long posts are TOO long.
But Light knows when it's time for self parody so that's good.
But Light knows when it's time for self parody so that's good.
Thought provoking even.....
Good post Meka!
:-)
I don't think it's sad, I mean, how do we know if we are wasting our time putting effort into things if we don't rely upon others to give us feedback?
It's strange though, I was thinking about that the other day; about having more time in the day.
And I must admit, I did scroll down to see how long it was, but that's just habit, I would've read it if it was pages long.
Especially with Notables posts, I mean I'm not "stereotyping", if you know what I mean, that Notables always write perfect though provoking posts, but more often than not, they do.
:-)
I don't think it's sad, I mean, how do we know if we are wasting our time putting effort into things if we don't rely upon others to give us feedback?
It's strange though, I was thinking about that the other day; about having more time in the day.
And I must admit, I did scroll down to see how long it was, but that's just habit, I would've read it if it was pages long.
Especially with Notables posts, I mean I'm not "stereotyping", if you know what I mean, that Notables always write perfect though provoking posts, but more often than not, they do.
Not sure what to say really. I didn't scroll down at the start, because over time I've realised that your stuff is worth reading regardless of length. For most other people I would scroll down at the start.
I didn't bother reading your post Meka. Only joking, it's true, if something is really long people tend not to read it. Good Post Meka!!
How many of you scrolled down to see how long this post was?
Can't be bothered to read something if it's over a certain length?
Have you got some place else to be, or something else to do?
Would reading this be a waste of your time?
Just how much time have you got?
Do you want to read a few posts before you stop to watch a specific program on the television later? Or do you have nothing else to do, and you're just going to keep on reading posts, reply to messages until you're bored, then find something else to do?
For the last few years I don't feel that I've had enough time. I've had the same amount as everybody else though, surely. My days last 24 hours just like yours, 1440 minutes just like yours, 86400 seconds, just like yours. Am I just selfish to want more?
Or is the problem that I'm not doing the right things with the time I have, and am blaming something I have no control over for it?
Right now, is writing this a good use of of my time?
Quick answer, yes, I feel I need to write it down, as it will help me to see it the way I want to, help me to get over another one of those stumbling blocks that happens to fall into my way.
Alternative answer, and indeed the only alternative to yes, would be no. If I check the forums later, and see that I have no or just a few replies, then I'll feel it was a waste of my time. Even though it's something I'm trying to get clear in my head, I still need you to recognise it in some way.
Yes that's right, I need you, I still need you, as much as I ever did.
Since these forums were cruelly taken from me by my evil employers things haven't been the same. I mean, I can understand them doing it, I'm paid to work, not spend all day on the forums, writing, reading, enjoying myself.
So these 8 hours, they used to be the main time I spent here, and I felt part of something special. Now I have plenty of work to do in those 8 hours, (not always my employers...) but things have changed so drastically here, that it will never be the same again, and I can't get it back.
It really does upset me when I get no, or few replies to a post. I think it means nobody read it. A hit-counter on each thread would make my day, week, month, as I would then no for sure whether you people were reading or not.
Which comes back to time.
I want to know if I'm wasting my time, writing as I do.
Things I write on these forums tend to be ideas, things I'd like to develop, but then if nobody has anything to say about them, I figure that they must not be any good.
Why should I care what a bunch of people on a forum think?
Feedback.
It's so much better than sending out letters, waiting for a reply that's a simple yes or not.
"Good post Meka!"
That gives me confidence, empowers me. Sad isn't it?
Without these forums I would never have even believed that I could write anything. So I haven't got anywhere so far, but i have the confidence to try.
All because I was 'wasting' my time on the forums.
If I do get anywhere with this, I wonder if I'll still feel like I never have enough time.
Can't be bothered to read something if it's over a certain length?
Have you got some place else to be, or something else to do?
Would reading this be a waste of your time?
Just how much time have you got?
Do you want to read a few posts before you stop to watch a specific program on the television later? Or do you have nothing else to do, and you're just going to keep on reading posts, reply to messages until you're bored, then find something else to do?
For the last few years I don't feel that I've had enough time. I've had the same amount as everybody else though, surely. My days last 24 hours just like yours, 1440 minutes just like yours, 86400 seconds, just like yours. Am I just selfish to want more?
Or is the problem that I'm not doing the right things with the time I have, and am blaming something I have no control over for it?
Right now, is writing this a good use of of my time?
Quick answer, yes, I feel I need to write it down, as it will help me to see it the way I want to, help me to get over another one of those stumbling blocks that happens to fall into my way.
Alternative answer, and indeed the only alternative to yes, would be no. If I check the forums later, and see that I have no or just a few replies, then I'll feel it was a waste of my time. Even though it's something I'm trying to get clear in my head, I still need you to recognise it in some way.
Yes that's right, I need you, I still need you, as much as I ever did.
Since these forums were cruelly taken from me by my evil employers things haven't been the same. I mean, I can understand them doing it, I'm paid to work, not spend all day on the forums, writing, reading, enjoying myself.
So these 8 hours, they used to be the main time I spent here, and I felt part of something special. Now I have plenty of work to do in those 8 hours, (not always my employers...) but things have changed so drastically here, that it will never be the same again, and I can't get it back.
It really does upset me when I get no, or few replies to a post. I think it means nobody read it. A hit-counter on each thread would make my day, week, month, as I would then no for sure whether you people were reading or not.
Which comes back to time.
I want to know if I'm wasting my time, writing as I do.
Things I write on these forums tend to be ideas, things I'd like to develop, but then if nobody has anything to say about them, I figure that they must not be any good.
Why should I care what a bunch of people on a forum think?
Feedback.
It's so much better than sending out letters, waiting for a reply that's a simple yes or not.
"Good post Meka!"
That gives me confidence, empowers me. Sad isn't it?
Without these forums I would never have even believed that I could write anything. So I haven't got anywhere so far, but i have the confidence to try.
All because I was 'wasting' my time on the forums.
If I do get anywhere with this, I wonder if I'll still feel like I never have enough time.
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