I don't know what to write. I havn't had any interesting insights in the last few days. I've been working quite hard out in the heat and to be honest I am feeling really worn out. My back feels better though. That was getting to be ridiculous, but thankfully mountains of cash given to the right person can fix any problem. Thank you physio and massage therapist. The bit I really love is how we pay hundreds of dollars a year to ACC and then when we need them, we have to pay with our own money anyway. I love how life is fair like that. Good system. At least my taxes go to worthy causes. Prisoners eat better than I do. Good on them. They deserve a good feed at the end of the day.
Tired. Can only manage short sentences. Boy it's hot. Not quite 40deg, but still hot.
I guess the one thing I have been thinking about a little bit today was around the topic of too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing. There's lots of things that are bad for us, and lots of things that are good for us. But if we do too much of those good things then they become bad for us. Sleep, food, wine, exercise, work, socialising, sun, thinking, talking, music... are all good things. But if we have too much of these then they become bad for us. Everything in moderation, including moderation. Too much sleep and the world would be like a big group of students. Nothing getting done, but lots of nice looking bed hair. Too much food and the world would look like a planet full of overweight Americans. Too much wine and the world would look like a bunch of Aussie teenagers. The list could go on. I like getting my shirt off at work, coz it's so hot (the temperature, certainly not my body) and that sun is good for my vitamin D and healthy looking appaerance, but if it's off for too long, then I look like a lobster, get melanoma and eventually, will age like the man from the Dolmio Grin ads.
No one wants that do they?
Also, there has to be a balance between doing lots of good stuff. Like when you are eating healthy, it's good to have a day off to have a treat or two. Exercising should always include a day off in between or as often as you deem appropriate. Even alcoholics have a day off every year and followers of the Consumer Religion even take a day off at Easter.
It's ok to not be perfect and always maintain perfection in your life. There's only one person who was and is perfect and if we try to live up to that standard then we are self deceived idiots. Excellence is a good thing to aim for, but excellence isn't perfection. Once you realise that you don't have to be perfect and live up to impossible standards, a real freedom comes into your life. Jesus earnt all the brownie points for us! So as long as we are honestly doing our best as is humanly possible, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes as long as we learn from them. If you eat healthy for a while but then eat fish n chips for a few days, so what! Yeah it's not a good thing, it's not what I want my life's diet to be like, but it's also not the end of the world.
I'm writing this for people like me. Perfectionists. Who think perfection can be attained by lots of effort, but every time I don't reach it, I beat myself up. I sometimes need to tell myself that "Good enough is actually good enough".
God fills in the gaps for us, and makes us perfect in His sight. Do your best and then relax. Then do your best again...
Gee, I don't think that blog makes any sense. I am spaced out. Too much exercise today...
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