I only have twenty minutes before a train transports me to another dimension so I must write fast and write good.
Yesterday I was overcome. After a very intense start to the day, I found myself at the early afternoon with a 45 minute window of nothingness – otherwise known as BLISS…
I turned to my Google Reader to catch up some blogs, something I very rarely do whilst ‘at work’ – a habit I now realise is wrong.
Within about 10 minutes of opening up a select bunch of blog posts from the river of free and excellent content before me, my head brain-gasket was blown.
I was struck, having only half-rolled in the puddles of other people’s ideas, not yet even fully immersed, with how much opportunity there is right now to change stuff for the better, so much so that I became overwhelmed and started shouting across the office: ‘%&*%%$’…….. ‘*@£*$$*£@@’. Except I can’t shout in symblols, but definitely can in coarse words.
There are simply so many exciting things happening at the moment. So MUCH opportunity to get involved, to create new helpful futures, to DO, it just lifted me up into a state of ridiculous excitement, and then cast me down into a trough of happy paralysis – stopped by the bigness of everything.
This isn’t a blog post to tease, or even to share the links, though I will try another time.
That is not the point.
The point is this. It is happening all around us. At pace and at scale. A miraculous and dizzying world of change. The question isn’t what to do, but what not to do. I must resist being greedy, I must resist doing it all. But by jove, there’s lots of good stuff out there to be done.
Sorry if this confuses. I just had to vent a little :)
5 Comments
i totally agree, and i had a comparable experience just the other day. i find it difficult not to want to do everything but it’s also such a relief to know that i don’t have to do everything (or worry about not being able to do everything) because so many other people are out there doing it too! thank you.
I know exactly how you feel.
Good words chap.
JW.
Glad it struck a chord with you two :)
Lovely stuff Will. Life is a menu.
Pete
I’ve noticed this in the office. So many good links being shared, ideas bounced around, and tangents presented. Too many. Good stuff is falling between the cracks, simply because of over abundance. That stream thing you always talk about is happening, even on a micro scale on our Yammer, with only 15 or so people.
Not sure where i’m going with this comment, maybe would be easier to just say LOTS IS GOOD, FORGET WHAT YOU CAN’T REMEMBER, SOMETHING COOLER WILL PRESENT ITSELF ANYWAY