having time

"I Don't Have Time" // Monday Musings

"I Don't Have Time" // Monday Musings

The title of this post makes me cringe a little bit, and I hope it made you feel the same way. It's a phrase we hear every day from everyone around us, including ourselves. We are busy, busy, busy, caught up in the activities of our kids, our friends, our spouses, and ourselves. It's so hard to have time for anything, or feel like you can add one more thing to your plate. If I got a dollar every time I heard that phrase, or said it myself, I'd be living it up in the Bahamas with all the time I could ever want.

I don't remember when it happened, but somewhere in the midst of working full time while running a photography business (and a couple little other things), I started saying this a LOT. And not just as a way to not do something else - I used it as a complaint. I spoke it so much I was almost bragging.
"I just don't have the time for anything else."
"Between all the things I've got going on, I just don't have time for that."
"I wish I had more time."
"How does he/she seem to have so much time for things?"

On and on it went...