So That’s Freedom?

I used to be one of those guys who lived by his schedule. My schedule gave me freedom because I knew what I had to do and when I had to do it. When I got finished with my “do’s” I was free.

The problem was and still is that I never get everything done so freedom is a pipe dream.

I’m starting to figure out (slowly) that if I switch things around and don’t get tied down by my schedule freedom is attainable.

Today my schedule was all screwed up. I couldn’t get my “Thursday Run” in at my usual time because I got to speak to a bunch of kids in Cottage Grove. So I took my running clothes with me, did the speech, dressed down and ran on the old rail line around the lake by Cottage Grove.

Normally, that would throw off my entire day but it’s actually been a day filled with freedom.

Was I wrong all these years? Did managing my schedule contribute to the demise of real freedom?

We all need schedules but what if we don’t have to “live by them?”

There are those of you out there reading this thinking, wow, I don’t get that at all. You, like my wife, are the blessed ones. You never learned how controlling it is and how safe you feel when schedules effectively manage your world.

We get sucked into a false sense of security and in that mess lose our freedom.

So that’s freedom. No wonder we like it so much.

1 Comment

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  Clarence Williams Jr December 8, 2011 at 5:38 pm

  Thank you for reminding me why I am free and all the good things I get done and the positive impact the I strive for every day. No schedule, politics, goverment old story of why it does not work, the whole schdule thing. I am free, I am free. Thanks Rick.