Hey heyy,
Thanks Kevin, for that
charming entry! But yeah, as Kevin mentioned ... I have a job now :) & you won't get Kevin's
attempted joke if you don't know where I work ... it actually sounds kinda bad haha. Also, belated congrats to the graduates of 09! Time just flies aye?
I know I said I'd be back soon ... guess that didn't happen hehe. Assignments never seem to end - it's just one after the other ... and there are also so many distractions in life & conveniently, this post is going to be about ... distractions ...
My trusty little Macquarie Dictionary defines distractions as ...
1. to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention.
2. to entertain ; amuse ; divert.
It seems to be that everything in life tries to distract me from God. Sad, but true. It's always something ... "I gotta do this ... I gotta do that" bla bla. Life is filled with countless (pointless) distractions. Sometimes I find myself settling for entertainment or amusement when there is something so
much better.
Distractions are seen in ... riddles. I love riddles but it's so annoying when I just can't seem to figure them out! I remember one youth night Lizzy showed us the
"How many horses just went by" riddle. We stood outside for aaaaages trying to figure it out and it got so frustrating! One by one the riddle was solved, leaving the people who hadn't figured it out yet (aka me) feeling relatively dumb haha. Some people fluked the right answer a couple of times (haha BJ!) but didn't really get it. I ended up getting it in the end, but only because Jasmine simplified it for me haha.
That's how riddles usually work aye? They have added movements, words, emphasisis, distractions to
divert our attention away from what's really important. Those that can solve a riddle quickly are usually those that can cast distractions aside (hence why I
suck! :P) There's so many more examples ... like
"Johnny woops" that took me like ... a
year to get! -_-" I didn't even
get the "
Bang bang bang, who did I shoot" riddle or the "
Man on the Moon" one - I was
told the answer haha cause I got impatient :P But yeah, once you
do know the answer it's
so obvious, you notice it straight away and it seems so ...
simple, you wonder how you didn't get it earlier!
Distractions make us forget, what we said we'd do etc "No more compromise", "I'm back for good now", "I'll do it after I finish (insert assignment, exam etc here)." Sound familiar? & the thing is that they can be multiple small distractions or big distractions, no matter what, they produce the same effect; they make us lose focus of what is really important (hence the image ... which kinda hurts my eyes lol) Sometimes I think we welcome and even
create distractions for ourselves. Distractions might work in a case ... let's say ... where you need to go to the toilet but there aren't any facilities around and you are trying to distract yourself from thinking about the need to pee (poo). Haha charming example ... I know. But I don't think my life should be filled with distractions.
Life just becomes so overcomplicated and we try to do
too much. I remember in year six I was a prefect (canteen duty, shop duty, flag duty, assembly duty), librarian, in the debating team, doing keyboard lessons twice a week in the school choir group and in the Australian Girls Choir. Wow! I did a
lot ... but I still felt empty inside, cause I wasn't satisfied, cause I didn't have the Christ, with me in my life (haha!) ... and nothing seemed to matter.
I guess in a way this post relates to Nikki's post about
simplicity and just taking the time to sit at His feet in awe and amazement. That's what I love about my hill; getting away from it all ... with only minimal distractions ... a few cars passing by, a few birds singing in the trees, a few random cats and dogs lols.
I don't want to get distracted and lose focus of the most important thing in my life.
P.S. I'll probably edit this post later, I usually end up editing posts lol. If only I could do as much editing on my assignments as I do on my posts :P
[edit October 30th] Haha It's been ages but yeah I feel like this needs editing - and I was meant to like
ages ago but got ... distracted :P So where was I, I guess it is also like a computer, the more programs you have running, the slower the whole thing runs. Sometimes we're just trying to do too much and just get so rundown and burnt out. I remember when I was first using Reg's Mac I accidentally opened everything on his desktop (noob I know) and it lagged heaps, so we had to restart it. Sometimes we gotta "restart" thanks be to God that He always offers us a fresh new start. [/edit]
GOD IS SO GOOD !
