Monky Me

C.N. Parkinson's (1909-1993) first law reads "Work Expands so as to fill the Time Available for its completion". An example of this law, if a meeting is scheduled for 2 hours, we will take 2 hours to talk and finish the meeting. If for the same meeting 45 minutes is scheduled, we will "only" take 45 minutes.

What still puzzles me is the time I invest in my projects. For example, definition of happiness in ancient Egypt, Cabo Verde maps before 1900, the wind that blows me in a new track of books to explore. Generalized this law must read (c) JeanD99: The Demand Upon the Resource Time Tends to Increase to Match the Urgency. 

I never have time to read or start a new project but time and again I feel suddenly an urgency so strong that I will skip all the other activities for days (sometimes weeks) and invest all my time in this project. This project is always new, exciting and urgent. And gives me great satisfaction. Monastic (say "monky") me.

P.S. I wrote on this before in my blog 'Still there? It's about you too' (September 2011)

Life is more

To be honest. I don't feel like blogging anymore. In a way I lost my appetite. The urgency is gone. Next to that nobody really seems to care. Nobody seems to wait for what I'll write next. Last few weeks I'm making up my mind about my wins. More and more the feeling grows in me to commit web suicide. Life is more than Twitter, BlipFM and Blogging. How strange to be back on Ana Carolina's song 'Mais que isso'. It's the image of my first 'Live Life!' blog.

Question: Is my concept of 'win win' wrong? What image fits better?

Reading books. It's like a mirror. It always brings me closer to ...

Why do people read? I don't know. Why do I read? I read the newspaper for getting informed of what's going on in my country and on planet Earth. I read books for pleasure. Mostly history related. I want to know where "we" came from and by knowing that being able to predict where we're going to. I want to monitor if  "we" are on the "right" track. I don't want to follow any authority. I always want to read the sources myself. It's so easy to say that Hitler, Mohammed and Jesus are a piece of crap but they once were individual human beings too with their own tears and fears, jealousy and love, dreams and (personal) constraints?

I read books for fun and pleasure, looking for a mirror, dreaming of what's lost and dreaming of what could be. I read books because it makes me feel alive. In a way books always bring me closer to me. I'm more me while I read. Hunderds of questions in a flow while reading. Mostly no need to answer my own questions. When a question is urgent I'll look for an answer in another book, on internet, by doing something else or while sleeping. Urgent questions of today are mostly vanished in 2 or 3 days. Strange isn't it?