Everything in Moderation

I would say I am a pretty moderate person. I do a lot of things in moderation. Like for example, I work a 9 to 5 job, in moderation. I do my hours and thats that, I don't work until 2 am every day. I also like to do exercise in moderation. 3 or 4 times a week I'll try to do some kind of physical activity, and I usually try to rotate so that I am always doing something new. I'll go surfing, mountain biking, skiing, snorkling, hiking, swimming, running, kayaking, or fishing. I also hang out with friends in moderation. I'll usually do sports with friends and maybe go out to dinner or a bar a couple times a week. I also have some hobbies, like keeping up to date with the news, being tech savvy, and fixing my car.

When you do many activities in moderation, you can't become an expert in everything, so you can only become mediocre at everything. For example, I will never be as good of a surfer as my friend who works all summer long to spend the entire winter surfing in Hawaii. I also will never be as good at my job as my friend who is a workoholic in a startup company, working 14 hour days 6 days a week. I will also never be as social as my friend who goes out every night with friends, because he does not have a job that requires the attention gained by a good night's sleep. I'll never be as fit as my friend who works in a bike shop and runs marathons and traithlons once a week. I'll never be the life of the party like my friends who organize vegas trips each weekend. I'll never code like my engineering friends who spent days and nights hacking away at projects.

I am moderate and it frustrates me.

My point is that I find it very difficult to pick where to allocate my time. I am always trying to divide my time between all these aspects of my complete life. It is frustrating because there is never enough time. Each day I try to figure out what I want to prioritize. one day it is my health, and I want to cook more food and do more physical things. An other day it's my relationships with friends, family, and extending my social network. I think about getting a girlfriend or just giving the grandparents a ring to see how they are doing. And then on the odd day, I think about trying to work hard to jumpstart the career, like working extra hours and on weekends. I want to do all these things but it is impossible to fit it all.

SOLUTION: 

One solution that I came up with would be to re-orient all the tread mills of the world in one direction in order to try to slow the earth's rotation, therefore making the days longer. no...thats stupid.

I think the real solution would be to just figure out what you want. You can't want it all equally, there's obviously some things that you like more than others. I think in order to be great at something you need to allocate all your resources to it, and be a FREAK, living and breathing that one special thing. The problem is, I don't want that, and spread everything out nice and thin. I guess that's the way I am and until I find something to sacrifice all other things for, I'll be spread thin, just like thinly spread jelly on toast.


Sorry for all the spelling errors, and lack of proofreading. I don't care about spelling and i was too busy today anyways to spellcheck.